Delhi Violence: Who sowed the seeds of separatism?
The affidavits being submitted by the police about the Delhi violence have now become a subject of discussion with several social activists alleging that police investigations into the Delhi violence have not been impartial. The affidavits reveal that out of those who were affected in the riots, about 80 percent were Muslims who suffered injuries and loss of life and property. At the same time, the affidavits also reveal that Sangh Parivar targeted their ire not only on Muslims but also on Dalits.
The miscreants arrested by the police for the riots reveal the efforts of the police in protecting the Sangh Parivar workers. Not just that. It is alleged that the police have created some fake incidents to prove that even Hindus have experienced heavy losses. The confusion in the police about the number of temples that were damaged during the riots supports these allegations. Responding to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) last month, the police had informed the court that two temples and 13 mosques were damaged. But in the latest affidavit, the number of temples damaged has risen to six.
Social activists suspect that the police and the Sangh Parivar organizations have jointly created several such fake incidents of temples being attacked and damaged. A right-wing website had reported that miscreants had stoned a Hanuman temple near a school and a Gowri Shankar temple near a Shishu Vihar in the national capital, but the temple priest had refuted the report. This shows the attempts of the police to render the victims as the accused and protect the accused.
A few days ago, the chief of Delhi police warned his department staff that Hindu leaders were upset that workers of Sangha Parivar were being arrested. This indicates that the police are being pressurized by politicians and Sangh Parivar organizations against arresting those miscreants who were actually involved in the violence and is raising suspicions that the police are trying to portray the victims as the accused.
The most shocking element of the investigation into the Delhi violence is the desperation of the police to falsely project the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protestors as perpetrators of violence. The violence in Delhi took place to suppress anti-CAA protestors with the sole objective being to threaten the protestors and make them withdraw the protests. But the police have come out with a different conclusion. According to them, people who were outraged at the CAA came to the streets and unleashed violence.
The police have recorded similar such statements from miscreants and have tried to falsely implicate student leaders and social workers for having triggered and encouraged the violence. In their affidavits, police have said the main objective of the anti-CAA protestors was to instigate separatism. “Creating riots between two communities and encouraging armed rebels to fight against an established government, thereby giving a fillip to the separatist movement was its main agenda,” the police have said.
The anti-CAA agitation was not started by any one community. It began in Assam with most of the protestors being non-Muslims. Lakhs of people in Assam are living in fear of losing their citizenship over the unconstitutional National Register of Citizens (NRC) introduced by the government. Not all of them belong to a specific community but belong to different castes and communities. It is the CAA that has divided the country on the basis of religion and not the protests against the CAA. In fact, the CAA saw thousands of people coming to the streets holding national flags reiterating that ‘we are all of the citizens of this country’ with their only objective being an appeal to stop suspicions over their citizenship and definitely not dividing the country. However, continuing the attempts to divide the country, attempts were even made to identify the protestors based on their attire. The attempts, however, failed due to the coming together of anti-CAA protestors on a common plank.
It is obvious that the government tried to suppress the anti-CAA movement by using Delhi violence. A situation has been created where victims of Delhi violence are now being forced to go to jail instead of handing out punishment to the accused. The law has been used to further inflict wounds on those who are already wounded. The violence in Delhi took place to suppress the Constitution of India and it is now being used again for the same purpose. If we do not protest this conspiracy that is being hatched during the lockdown, the country’s future will be at a greater risk.
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Congress cites Maniben Patel's diary entries, asks Rajnath to apologise for Babri claim
New Delhi (PTI): The Congress on Saturday shared diary entries of Vallabhbhai Patel's daughter from a book to rebut Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's claim that India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, wanted to build the Babri masjid using public funds, and demanded that Singh apologise for spreading "falsehoods".
Congress general secretary in charge of communications, Jairam Ramesh, claimed the defence minister was spreading falsehoods to “improve his relationship” with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“Here is Maniben's original diary entry in Gujarati on pages 212-213 in the book ‘Samarpit Padchhayo Sardarno’ by CA R S Patel 'Aaresh', published by Sardar Patel Vallabhbhai Patel Memorial Society, 2025,” Ramesh said on X, sharing screenshots of the relevant pages from the book.
“There is a huge difference between what is contained in the original diary entry and what Rajnath Singh ji and his fellow ‘distorians’ are propagating,” Ramesh said.
“The Defence Minister must apologise for the falsehoods he is spreading, simply to improve his relationship with the PM,” he claimed.
The Congress had earlier termed Singh's claim that Nehru wanted to build the Babri masjid using public funds a “lie” and “WhatsApp university story”, and said the defence minister should not walk in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's path.
Addressing a gathering at Sadhli village in Gujarat's Vadodara district last Tuesday, Singh said Nehru wanted to build the Babri masjid using public funds, but Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel didn't allow his plans to succeed.
The BJP had cited a book by Vallabhbhai Patel's daughter to double down on Singh's claims, and said the first prime minister also said he felt "repelled" by some of the temples in south India despite their beauty.
“The source of what Rajnath Singh said is the 'Inside Story of Sardar Patel, Diary of Maniben Patel'," BJP Rajya Sabha MP and national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi had said at a press conference at the party headquarters while responding to media queries on the issue.
Trivedi claimed that on Page 24 of the book, it is written that Nehru also raised the question of the Babri mosque, but Sardar Patel made it clear that the government could not spend any money on building a mosque.
