To Dissent is Not Sedition

The right wing forces in India are hell bent to destroy democratic and dissenting voices across campuses in India. The AVBP and RSS’s new ploy is to silence protest against them for killing RohithVemula. The new card they are playing is to ShutDownJNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University, a prominent university) and term anyone speaking for human rights of oppressed people/ nationalities as ‘Anti-National’.  The whole thing is a move to push the Indian system towards establishment of a Hindu state in India, and for this they are trying to silence resistance emerging from universities.

The ship being steered by the Modi-led Indian government is not of democracy, but of fascism- Hindutva fascism. And latest in the attack by fascism is on Jawaharlal Nehru University, where the students are facing the police crackdown with the charges of sedition. But, the students and teachers of the university are united in resisting the onslaught.

With the right wing BJP government in power every principle of our constitution is under attack by fascist Hindutva forces. Meanwhile the status of Freedom of Speech in India is reduced to:

Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), right-wing student group affiliated to Hindutva fascist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is on the path of lying and continuously demonising various progressive and democratic student movements in India. All these lies are to satisfy their Hindutva masters who aim to establish a Hindu state in India and curb the right of Dalits, Tribals and Minorities. But every time they lie, their regressive politics gets exposed. ABVP since its inception only has done one thing- diluting progressive students’ movements and destroying the secular and revolutionary fabric of each and every campus where they put their leg in.

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