Modi's 2012 Victory in Gujarat not possible without connivance of Congress - Statement by Shabnam Hashmi

PUBLIC STATEMENT

I feel deeply disturbed at the betrayal of the hard work and faith of the thousands of activists who worked in Gujarat against the dictatorship and the fascist regime of Narendra Modi and also crores of Gujaratis who voted against Modi in the assembly election.

There was a strong anti-Modi wave but suddenly everything changed between December 15 evening and 17th morning.

To the best of my understanding and experience of working as a social-political activist for 30 years the overnight reversal and the following victory of the communal –fascist regime was not possible without the connivance of the political party that leads the UPA.

As a protest against the betrayal of the aspirations of the marginalized people of Gujarat to throw out the Modi regime I am resigning from all UPA government committees that I have been part of so far.

I have sent today my resignation from the membership of : Maulana Azad Education Foundation, Ministry of Minority Affairs, CABE (Central Advisory Board of Education), NMCME (National Monitoring Committee for Minority Education) and NLM Council (National Literacy Mission) MHRD and Assessment and Monitoring Authority, Planning Commission of India.

I call upon the conscience of the nation, political parties, media to rise above the interest of their individual parties, corporate houses and conduct an independent investigation into the Gujarat Verdict 2012 and to look at especially the presence of foreign diplomats and journalists in Gujarat just before the elections.

I also demand that use of EVM machines should be abandoned in any future elections.

If Gujarat was used as the laboratory of the hate ideology it can also be used as the laboratory of undermining the democracy in India.


Shabnam Hashmi
December 28, 2012