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Hindutva leaders at Haridwar Dharam Sansad call for Muslim Genocide


Between December 17 and 19, a large number of major religious leaders, right-wing extremists, hardline fundamentalist militants and Hindutva organisations came together at Haridwar for an event called the ‘Dharma Sansad’ or ‘Religious Parliament’. Over the course of three days, this event witnessed an extraordinary outpouring of hate speech, mobilisation to violence and anti-Muslim sentiment. The event was also attended by BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay, who has previously been arrested for an event he helped organise where slogans were raised calling for violence against Muslims, and BJP Mahila Morcha leader Udita Tyagi, giving the event a level of political encouragement from the ruling party. “We have to make preparations,” said Swami Prabodhanand Giri, president of the Hindu Raksha Sena, a right-wing organisation based in Uttarakhand. “And I’ll tell you what preparations those are. I will make myself clear, this is the solution, and if you follow this solution, then the path is made for you… in Myanmar, Hindus were being chased away. The politicians, government and police were just standing and watching. They started by killing them by cutting their necks, and not only this, but they began to cut them in the streets and eat them. The people watching thought we are going to die, we are not going to live.” “This is our state now. You have seen this at the Delhi border; they killed Hindus and hung them. There is no more time, the case now is that either you prepare to die now, or get ready to kill, there’s no other way. This is why, like in Myanmar, the police here, the politicians here, the army and every Hindu must pick up weapons and we will have to conduct this cleanliness drive (safai abhiyan). There is no solution apart from this.” The statements calling for ethnic cleansing and genocide are particularly alarming given Prabodhanand’s connections with the BJP.



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Incidence on
Dec. 17, 2021, 12:24 p.m.

Nature of Violence
  • Hate speech
Prime Facie Factors
  • Hate Speech

Name of the Victim
Muslim Community
Name of the Perpetrator
Swami Prabodhanand Giri and other Hindutva leaders

Action taken so far
FIR registered

Location

Ved Niketan Dham, Bhupatwala
City
Haridwar
State
Uttarakhand,    India

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