7/27/2019 AISA Poster Oct 19 Against Communal Campaign

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Over the past few months, we have been seeing posters and pamphlets issued by India First

the tone, tenor and content of their campaigns are of course painfully familiar and reveal India

Firsts ideological closeness to the Sangh Parivar. And now, joining the pantheon of Sanghioutfits in JNU is the so-called Akk Jagrit Matdata Manch (AJMM), which has recently called a

public meeting on Our Real Hero: Lord Rama. Clearly, as preparations for the 2014 Lok Sabha

elections intensify across the country, the various fronts of the Sangh Parivar are systematically

building a communal campaign.

We are familiar with the slander and myths as well as anti-minority propaganda that

constitute the core of such campaigns. In the name of culture, tradition and a dubiously

constructed Hindu pride, these campaigns aggressively deny space to alternative interpretations

and renderings of history and mythology. This hate and divisive propaganda, combined withorchestrated riots and communal violence, such as the ones we recently witnessed in

Muzaffarnagar, are the staple diet of the Sangh Parivar. Driven as they are by a desire to spread

a communal common sense and to foment tensions, their main agenda is to reap quick electoral

benefits and use religion for their own narrow political purposes.

The instances of the Sangh Parivars lumpenism, intolerance and violence are way too

many to recount. During Durga Puja this year in JNU, some students were forcedto say Jai

Mata Di at the pandal for taking prasad. Such calculated attempts to foment intolerance in the

pretext of religious festivals must be condemned and defeated.We have not forgotten that recently

in the FTII in Pune, students were beaten up simply because they refused to say Jai Narendra

Modi! As the 2014 elections draw near, it becomes all the more clear that BJP and the Sangh

Parivar is more than willing to literally walk over corpses in their bid for power. The progressive

and secular forces across the country will have to resist this deeply dangerous and damaging

campaign. AISA appeals to the student community to strengthen all efforts to expose the real

divisive and polarising political agenda behind the aggressive campaign of India First and the

Akk Jagrit Matdata Manch.

Do Not Remove Till 25 Oct

Expose and Defeat the SanghBrigades Renewed Communal

Campaigns To Vitiate CampusAtmosphere!

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