ANOTHER ATTACK OF HOSTILE EXTREME HINDUTVA ON DEMOCRACY
On last September 6th a well-known and established Kannad journalist Gauri Lankesh has been killed in a planned manner. Gauri Lankesh was a strong opponent of extreme hindutva forces and never minced her words in opposing them. She was also one of founders of Karnataka Komu Souharda Vedike, a forum for communal harmony, which regularly protested against the attacks on minorities by the extreme hindutva organisations. Like the noted Kannad litterateur M M Kalburgi, who was killed by extreme hindutva forces about two years ago in the same city, Gauri Lankesh was also a vehement critic of various evil practices and the discriminations based on caste in Hinduism. Due to her opposition of the extreme hindutva forces she was threatened a number of times in the past. After the killings of Govind Pansare, Narendra Dabholkar, and M M Kalburgi, Gauri Lankesh?s dastardly killing has become the latest addition to the list. In spite of pretensions shown off by some central BJP leaders through their display of mourning for the killing of Gauri Lankesh the delight of the hindutva forces at regional levels could not be concealed. A BJP MLA from Karnataka, D.N. Jeevaraj while addressing party workers said "Since the Congress government came to power, 11 leaders of the BJP and Hindu groups were murdered in the State. Had Gauri Lankesh condemned the killings and criticised the Siddaramaiah government, don?t you think she would have been alive today?" Further, he remarked had she had not termed the killings "massacre of RSS people", she would not have been killed. Then there was another tweet by a man named Nikhil Dadhich, who introduces himself as a "businessman, garments manufacturer, Hindu nationalist". Dadhich tweeted that a ?bitch? had died a dog's death and all the pups were bawling. The tweet had two winking emoticons with their tongues sticking out. Noticeably the PM Narendra Modi is himself a follower of that ?Hindu Nationalist?s? Twitter handle. It is amply clear from such expressions that what these hindutva forces really want. The fascist campaign of these extreme hindutva forces is advancing unhindered.
As representatives of a small section of revolutionary proletariat we vehemently protest this killing. We are seriously concerned about the killing of such intellectuals who are rationalists and oppose the extreme hindutva. These attacks on the intellectuals are revealing the fact that to what extent the fascist forces of extreme hindutva has advanced in their hostile campaign. They are desperate to stifle for all times those voices of opposition who are daring to oppose them. If they are able to attack the well-known writers-journalists and intellectuals so blatantly then it is quite easy to comprehend that how much in danger are those who are trying to stand up against these fascist forces in different regions of this country.
The killing of Gauri Lankesh is an assault on democracy itself. Such an attack reveals that not only the right to freedom of expression and freedom of protest of the intellectuals but even the right of working-class and other toiling masses to be organized and to struggle is in grave danger. If an effective resistance cannot be built against this then whatever little rights still exist for the working-class and toiling masses to struggle, agitate, and get organized and also the freedom of expression and to protest of the common masses will also be usurped in the coming days. In order to build the class struggle of the working-class and toiling masses with the aim of a classless society free from exploitation, for equality and real democracy for all the masses the conscious representatives of proletariat have to stand up against these attacks on democracy.
At the same time it must also be remembered that even though the fascist forces of extreme hindutva are the biggest enemies of democracy there is no reason whatsoever to believe that the prevailing democracy in this country, the democracy in whose name the bourgeois and the petty-bourgeois political parties hail and take oath, is real democracy indeed. From day of independence the democracy in this country is tremendously stunted and fragmented. Every moment, continually, assaults on democracy are taking place in different corners of the country. Sometimes in Kashmir, Nagaland or Mizoram by snatching away the rights of the oppressed nationalities, some other time snatching away the minimum rights of the dalit masses in extensive regions in the villages, brutally repressing the adivasi masses on the alibi of suppressing the Maoists, imprisoning activists of mass movements using draconian black laws like UAPA, or crushing by force the workers? rights of organization and struggle.
The extreme hindutva fascist forces have started their virulent campaign to completely eliminate even this fragmented and stunted democracy and establish a fascist rule. This campaign has to be stopped. At the same time it must be remembered that within this system of rule of the big bourgeoisie and landlords real democracy can never be achieved. Hence every struggle to achieve democracy has to be linked with the struggles to dislodge and demolish the big bourgeois big landlord ruling system. Within this system of rule the struggle for democracy can never accomplish its aim.
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