South Asia Citizens Web

The right wing nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has projected you as the Chief Ministerial candidate in the Delhi Assembly elections scheduled for 7 February, 2015. The lawyers in all the subordinate courts of Delhi have opposed your candidature reminding the electorate about the brutal lathi charge in 1988 leashed upon them under your stewardship while you were the Deputy Commissioner of Police (North).

By no means comprehensive, but here are eight points to understand the current crisis in Bangladesh and why it appears particularly intractable.

The recent judgment of the Additional District and Sessions Judge of Jehanabad (Bihar), given in the much reported case of Shankar Bigha Massacre, has not only depicted the travesty of justice, but also exposed the frivolity of Bihar police and its prosecution machinery. The Judge of the trial court has acquitted all the 24 accused persons, of being involved in the infamous massacre, on 13th January, 2015, citing “lack of evidence”.

May I on behalf of the Lokayan community of activists, scholars, and intellectuals and the scores of concerned individuals and organizations that have supported Lokayan over the nearly six years of its existence, extend our warm greetings and grateful thanks to the Right Livelihood Foundation, the Swedish Parliament and the Swedish society and people. Ours is a fairly modest and still developing endeavor towards broadening the base of the democratic process in India by drawing upon diverse practical initiatives and experiments in alternatives at the grassroots of our society as well as new thinking and reflection that have become necessary at the macro level as a consequence of this.

cards with Gandhi quote on Secularism produced by Sahmat for 30 Jan 2015 event marking the anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by the Hindutva Activist Nathruram Godse