Incidents happening in Lakshadweep resemble the atrocities of Emergency

 Written by P.S. Sahni & Shobha Aggarwal

Incidents happening in Lakshadweep under the ruthless Administrator Praful Patel are very disturbing even during these unusual times. Memory goes back to June 1975 when under cover of Internal Emergency a similar exercise was carried out in Muslim dominated area of in and around Jama Masjid, old Delhi. It so happened that Sanjay Gandhi and the then DDA Vice Chairman Mr. Jagmohan (who was to become Governor of J & K later) lamented that they were unable to see Jama Masjid in view of tenements around Jama Masjid housing the Muslims. So the following plan of action was undertaken:

1. Bulldozing the tenements housing 70,000 Muslims (equivalent to the present population of Lakshadweep).

2. Change the pattern of land use.

3. Attempt was to beautify the area and make it a tourist spot. The truth is that it was a tourist spot already.

4. During this period preventive detention laws were strengthened.

5. Sanjay’s five point program included family planning which transformed into forcible vasectomy.

6. Muslims, poor and subordinate caste people were targeted.

Maneka Gandhi was instrumental in getting the Idgah abattoir out of old Delhi through judicial means.

A cursory look at the last few days media clippings show:

That Lakshadweep Administrator has the same proclivities e.g. converting Lakshadweep into a grand tourist spot akin to Maldives; preventing people with two plus kids from becoming Panchayat members; strengthening preventive detention laws; and change of land use pattern.

Our friend Inder Mohan of PUCL opposed the demolition; BBC covered his arrest under MISA. Inder Mohan was innocent enough to meet Sanjay Gandhi during the day and get arrested in late evening. Next day Muslims in old Delhi lined up along the lanes and by-lanes even as Inder Mohan was being escorted from Darya Ganj Police Station to Tis Hazari District Court, Delhi.

Is Lakshadweep the next target even without a formal emergency?

First Published: https://countercurrents.org/2021/06/incidents-happening-in-lakshadweep-resemble-the-atrocities-of-emergency/

ABVA’s resolution on LGBT Studies, Yale University

 

ABVA at its meeting on 06 June, 2021 passed the following resolution:

 

“a. That LGBT Studies, Yale University stands blacklisted in view of its attempt to steal/hijack/subvert the collective work of ABVA, New Delhi, India.

 

  b. That recourse to other methods of redressal including legal ones would be initiated if Yale University fails to rectify its mistakes.”

 

Developments leading to this resolution have been documented in:

Open Letter to Yale University Authorities – Don’t Steal/Hijack/Subvert the Collective Work of ABVA, New Delhi, India. Scrap Brudner Prize 2019

 

Yale University in stealing the collective work of ABVA has carried forward the legacy of the infamous Elihu Eli Yale, after whom it is named, except that in the instant case it is our intellectual property that is stolen by Yale University. Elihu Eli Yale had in the eighteenth century donated a huge sum to Yale University (then known as the “Collegiate School”) out of the ill-gotten wealth made by him in South India.  So the loot continues!