Rambhakt Gopal: the rise of a new Hindutva fascist icon called ‘Godse 2.0’
Rambhakt Gopal, the man who fired at the Jamia Millia Islamia students, is back in news. Now he calls for slaughtering Muslims and is rising as a Hindutva icon.
Rambhakt Gopal, the man who fired at the Jamia Millia Islamia students, is back in news. Now he calls for slaughtering Muslims and is rising as a Hindutva icon.
Soon after Modi’s victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, violence has been unleashed against minorities and marginalised people throughout India.
It was well known before the Rajasthan assembly election that the BJP will not return to power in the state that follows a revolving door policy since 1993. There was a visible discontent, even within the Sangh Parivar, against Vasundhara Raje and her tyrannical way of running the government. Vasundhara Raje was also accused of … Read more
Since the time Narendra Modi won a landslide majority in the 16th Lok Sabha election and formed a government in May 2014, the common wailing of the parliamentary opposition was that secularism, as defined by the Indian Constitution, is under threat. Neither Narendra Modi nor the RSS-led Hindutva fascist camp disappointed the opponents and their … Read more
The Indian state has so far endorsed and nurtured the Gau Rakshaks, the Hindutva fascist terrorists who’ve been instrumental in perpetrating brutal violence and oppression on minority Muslims throughout India. Now when the same Gau Rakshak terrorists lynched one of their own man, Uttar Pradesh Police Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh in Bulandshahr, a shockwave passed … Read more
Uttar Pradesh is again in news for all the wrong reasons due to a massive mob violence in Bulandshahr, where a police officer was killed by Hindutva fascist terrorists during their attack on a police station. The policeman killed in firing, Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh, was the investigating officer in the infamous Dadri lynching case, … Read more
When the elites and urban middle-class of India, the upper-caste privileged section of the society, was glued to the TV watching the theatrics performed during the no-confidence motion, either appraising Narendra Modi or Rahul Gandhi for their performance, Akbar Khan (28), a Mewati Muslim from Mewat district of Haryana, was lynched by the RSS-sponsored cow … Read more
When the national news bulletins have started pushing the stories of mob lynching and gory atrocities committed by the RSS-backed Gau Rakshaks (cow vigilante stormtroopers) to the oblivion as these lynchings become the norm, a unique incident in BJP-ruled Maharashtra’s Pune city brought a small but a very effective change in the hitherto existing and … Read more
Even after the nationwide outrage over the Hindutva-incensed mob lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri district of Uttar Pradesh in 2015 and over the series of such the brutal lynchings, up to that of Pehlu Khan in Alwar district of Rajasthan by the VHP affiliated goons, the mob violence against the Muslims and Dalits isn’t … Read more
The social fabric of the country, especially the communal harmony that existed in other parts of India than communally turbulent cow-belt, has been ripped off by the Hindutva regime in the last three years. The “holy cow” issue is used every now and then to threaten the Muslims, Dalits, Tribals and Christian population of the … Read more
The notorious cow-vigilante of the RSS and its affiliates, known as Gau Rakshaks in Hindi, brutally murdered one and injured four Muslim men in Alwar district of Rajasthan. The Gau Rakshaks alleged that the men who were killed and injured by them were cattle smugglers and their violence is justified because the animals the victims … Read more
(This article was first published in August 2016 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) Dalit liberation struggle of the country reached a new peak in Gujarat, the citadel of Hindutva fascism promoted … Read more