AISA, CPI(ML), JNUSU Visit to Muzaffarnagar Relief Camps
A team of leaders & activists of CPI(ML), AISA & JNUSU visited Muzaffarnagar relief camps on 28th & 29th Dec. and distributed relief aid of over 1000 blankets. The team comprised of JNUSU Vice-President Anubhuti, Joint-Secretary Sarfaraj; AISA activist from JNU Abhishek; DU AISA Secretary Harsh, Vice-President Prerna; Jamia AISA Secretary Farhan, Com. Prashant; Com. Pradeep from Meerut, Com Alam from Bareily. The team was accompanied by Com. Prem Singh Gehlawat and Com. Aslam, leaders of CPI(ML).
The team visited two camps an
d two madrassa. The first was a madrassa at Hussainpur which sheltered 15 families from Mohammadpur, 10 from Kheragani & 5 from Bhorkala. Then we visited Budhana camp which had about 500 people living under deplorable conditions as they didn’t even have tents put up for them. They were forced to live in a single community tent which was insufficient for so many families. At the next madrassa AISA -CPI(ML) team distributed around 300 blankets .
The last relief camp the team visited was Jaula camp with over 3000 people. The victims of this camp belong to the worst affected areas of Fugana, Kutba, Lisadh etc. At this camp, small tents have been put up, small enough to spill out few family members, who are forced to live out in the freezing winter.
The condition of Mujaffarnagar camps testify that the UP state government has completely failed to meet the basic minimum standards of providing relief to the victims of Mujaffarnagar riots. When a serious humanitarian crisis is unfolding in the camps of Mujaffarnagar riot victims the Samajwadi Party has decided to drub the riot victims with absolute insensitivity. While Mulayam Singh Yadav, having failed to stop the riots, now wants to project the hapless riot victims as conspirators against the SP government some of his officials have surpassed him in the cruelty of their humour stating: “children [in the camps] have died of pneumonia, not of cold. Nobody can die of cold. If people died of cold, nobody would have been alive in Siberia.”
This was the first dispatch of the collected relief material; soon a team would leave for the second round in the first week of January. CPI(ML) appeals to people all over the country to contribute funds that can be used to buy relief materials (warm clothing, firewood, medicines, food) that are urgently needed for the Muzaffarnagar riot-affected.
AISA-CPI(ML) also appeal
s to begin the new year with a resolve to secure justice for Muzaffarnagar’s riot victims.
AISA-CPI(ML) also appeals to people in Delhi to join an all-India protest day on 2 Jan. at Jantar Mantar, demanding immediate arrest and prosecution of all rioters and rape-accused named in FIRs, and demanding that the State Government of UP ensure urgent relief and rehabilitation measures for the riot-displaced and riot-affected people.
Strengthen the hands of CPI (ML) and AISA in their consistent battle against the communal divisive forces of the Sangh Brigade who seeks to polarize 2014 Lok Sabha election on communal lines through engineering such brutal riots killing innocent people and by targeting minorities through its persistent hate campaign. And also for exposing so called ‘secular’ party SP and Congress for being complicit with such forces who have time and again failed to stop anti-muslim riots despite being in power. SP govt is failing miserably in even providing minimal needs to thousand of Muslims who were forced to stay in relief camps in inhuman conditions after their houses were destroyed. SP govt apathy to the victims have crossed limits as their govt have even bulldozed camps for forcing the people out rather than arresting the persons guilty of riots to restore the confidence of the minorities that they are safe and can go back to their home. Congress on the hand is showing worst kind of opportunism by seeking to score few brownie points over SP by doing worst politics on the plight of Muslims of Muzzafarnagar.
If you will look the whole incident of of muzaffarnagar riot, you will find there that is the experiment of disaster capitlaism on marginalized community and more interestinly state machinary was cpletely failed to protect the people. so muzaffarnagar was the experiment that how the state Thatherism can be implemented. It is very easy to use this state Thatherism on vulnerable people (specially women and children). So the more riot means succesful use of neoliberal principles, you need new shelter, food, cloths and medicine to survive and provide the scope for private players to capitalize your injuries, pain. Thousand of people are still forced to live in relief camps in this chilling cold, children are dying and shock doctrine is still contnues to flourish.
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