Recalling the dark days of emergency
We at Janhastakshep, will recall the proclamation of emergency in the year 1975, and rededicate ourselves to the cause of civil liberties and democratic rights of the Indian people on June 26. We request your participation in the meeting to be held.
ON JUNE 26, we recall the proclamation of emergency in the year 1975, and rededicate ourselves to the cause of civil liberties and democratic rights of the Indian people. The sacrifice of millions of struggling people in resisting the draconian laws and autocratic measures during emergency inspires the present generation in dealing with current issues relating to protection of rights of the toiling and the oppressed masses.
The country today faces large scale displacement in the name of industrialisation and development. People have no other alternative, but to resist their eviction from their home and lands. This has led to large scale alienation and simmering discontent among the rural and urban poor. In West Bengal, the state has retreated by withdrawing industrial projects from Nandigram and Singur. In Orissa, the state government is unleashing its para-military forces for evicting the poor and tribal people in Kalinga Nagar. In spite of firing and other repressive measures, the tribal people of Kalinga Nagar are steadfast in their resolve to face state repression and continue on their homelands. The affected people in the POSCO are also continuing their struggle against massive displacements.
In the states of Chattisgarh and Jharkhand, the tribal people are sought to be evicted from their homelands in the name of development of mines and forest-lands. The latest move to induct the army and the air force to the tribal areas in the name countering Maoist violence is to be seen as the Indian state abandoning the rural poor from its welfare frame-work. The clamour in the right wing media and the political class for using the armed forced threatens further to shrink the already restricted democratic space in the country. People’s movements throughout the country espousing democratic rights of the rural and urban poor are going to be targets of such onslaughts.
The Indian state, faced with the resistance of people of different states, is resorting to draconian laws and indiscriminate arrests of the poor tribals. Instead of looking into the genuine grievances of the affected people and taking remedial measures, the state is unleashing terror. Food security, employment opportunities, education and health care are beyond the reach of the poor. Against this background, civil liberties activist are being targeted for speaking on behalf of the poor. The provisions of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) are been used against civil liberties activists for defending the tribal rights.
In the states of Chattisgarh and Jharkhand, the tribal people are sought to be evicted from their homelands in the name of development of mines and forest-lands. The latest move to induct the army and the air force to the tribal areas in the name countering Maoist violence is to be seen as the Indian state abandoning the rural poor from its welfare frame-work. The clamour in the right wing media and the political class for using the armed forced threatens further to shrink the already restricted democratic space in the country. People’s movements throughout the country espousing democratic rights of the rural and urban poor are going to be targets of such onslaughts.
The Indian state, faced with the resistance of people of different states, is resorting to draconian laws and indiscriminate arrests of the poor tribals. Instead of looking into the genuine grievances of the affected people and taking remedial measures, the state is unleashing terror. Food security, employment opportunities, education and health care are beyond the reach of the poor. Against this background, civil liberties activist are being targeted for speaking on behalf of the poor. The provisions of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) are been used against civil liberties activists for defending the tribal rights.
The growing disconnect between the state and the people is becoming crystal clear with recent disclosures about the collusive role that the Central as well as the Madhya Pradesh government and higher judicial institutions have played in shielding Warren Anderson of the Union Carbide and other guilty officials in the Bhopal gas disaster.
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