People's Democracy

DYFI To Observe Communal Harmony Week

 THROUGH a statement issued from New Delhi on November 15, the central executive committee (CEC) of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) has informed about its resolve to observe the week from December 1 to 7 as Communal Harmony Week across the country. During this week, different units of the DYFI will carry out campaigns and organise activities in defence of secularism and communal harmony.

 The DYFI has taken this decision in the backdrop of the Gujarat carnage and the repeated attempts by the Sangh Parivar to stoke communal passions in our country. The genocide in Gujarat, in which the RSS-VHP-Bajrang Dal goons carried out organised attacks on members of the minority community and their properties, with the full connivance of the central and state governments, was unprecedented in the history of our country. Since then ---whether it be Modi’s so-called Gaurav Yatra, Bal Thackeray call for formation of Hindu suicide squads or Singhal’s call for repeating Gujarat across the country --- there have been constant attempts to further the communal divide in order to suit the sinister designs of the Sangh Parivar.

 To the DYFI, particularly alarming in this context was the VHP plan to organise a Vijay Yatra in Gujarat. This was to be a part of the VHP plan to celebrate December 6, tenth anniversary of the demolition of Babri Masjid, as Vijay Diwas all over India. Saying that this was a calculated move to shatter the fragile peace in Gujarat, the DYFI has welcomed the Election Commission’s directive to stop this yatra.

 The DYFI CEC also deplored the Sangh Parivar, including the VHP, for once again launching a personal attack on the chief election commissioner on most objectionable lines.

 Today the RSS and its outfits have intensified their communal campaign which, while showing the desperation of the fascistic formation in the face of popular discontent, also poses a grave threat to out society. This threat can be met only by mobilizing of the vast majority of our country’s people who stand in favour of secularism and communal harmony. It is in this direction that the DYFI has taken a step by deciding to observe a communal harmony week. (INN)