Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Tuesday said that what is happening in Bangladesh can happen in India too. Though everything may seem normal. Former Union Minister Khurshid was speaking at the launch of academician Mujibur Rahman’s book ‘Shikwa-e-Hind: The Political Future of Indian Muslims’.
He said, “Everything may look normal in Kashmir. Everything may look normal here. We may be celebrating victory, although certainly some people believe that that victory or the 2024 success was perhaps marginal, perhaps a lot still needs to be done.”
According to news agency PTI, the former foreign minister said, “What is happening in Bangladesh can happen here as well. Its spread in our country prevents things from spreading the way it has spread in Bangladesh.”
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Sheikh Hasina was forced to leave Bangladesh
Bangladesh was rocked by a wave of violent anti-government protests in July, after which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to resign and flee her country. She is currently in India and is preparing to take refuge in another country.
RJD MP Manoj Jha spoke on Shaheen Bagh
At the same event, RJD Rajya Sabha MP Manoj Jha spoke about the Shaheen Bagh movement against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and said that it has not been given due credit. Jha said, “Shaheen Bagh’s success should not be measured on the scale of the grandeur of its achievements. Remember what the Shaheen Bagh protest was… when Parliament was defeated, the streets came alive.”
What did Salman Khurshid say on Shaheen Bagh?
The women-led protest against CAA at Shaheen Bagh in South-East Delhi continued for nearly 100 days and inspired similar protests across the country. Manoj Jha feels that the Shaheen Bagh movement was successful, while Salman Khurshid was of the view that the movement failed as many people who were part of the protest are still in jail. Khurshid also said that there cannot be another movement like Shaheen Bagh in the country today.
The Congress leader said, “Will you feel bad if I say Shaheen Bagh failed? Many of us believe that Shaheen Bagh succeeded, but I know what is happening to the people associated with Shaheen Bagh. How many of them are still in jail? How many of them may not get bail? How many of them are being said to be enemies of this country?”
He said, “If I ask myself tomorrow whether Shaheen Bagh will happen again, I am not sure it will because people have really suffered.”
Owaisi asked- if there was a government of opposition parties then
At the event, AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi lamented the low representation of Muslims in assemblies and parliament and also questioned whether the situation would have changed for Muslims if the opposition was in power. He said, “The reality is that Muslims have never voted for any right-wing candidate or the BJP. If there was a non-BJP government right now, would things have changed? No.”
Talking about the rise of the Hindu right wing, Owaisi said, “Hitler did not invent anti-Semitism. It already existed. There were subterranean sentiments in our society too.”
He said, “We call Atal Bihari Vajpayee a liberal. The fact is that Vajpayee and Advani were creating an environment for the arrival of this gentleman.”
Tharoor said – there were people of all religions in the protest
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said he was among the first MPs to meet protesters at Shaheen Bagh and they were not just Muslims but people from all religions. “There have been protests all over the country and I myself have been to seven protests. There were people from all religions at the protests,” he said.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)