The Delhi Police believes that there was a conspiracy behind the communal violence in Delhi during the third week of February. We agree. ...
The Delhi Police believes that there was a conspiracy behind the communal violence in Delhi during the third week of February.
We agree.
But the actual conspiracy was a very different one from the one which Delhi Police is propagating.
The truth is that not just the Delhi 2020 carnage; no major episode of communal violence is spontaneous: it is always planned, organised and facilitated.
Such violence requires first the systematic creation of hatred. In Delhi we saw the build-up during the Delhi elections of a climate of hatred spawned by hate speech by senior leaders targeting the protestors against Citizenship Amendment Act, National Register of Citizens and the National Popular Register. This was led from the front by the Union home minister, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and several other cabinet and Bharatiya Janata Party leaders. The outcome was the spread of unprecedented levels of toxic communal venom, unmatched in any previous election in Delhi.
But beyond the manufacture of hatred and the organisation of the violence, the critical factor in any riot conspiracy is the role of the state, and particularly the police. No riot can go on for more than a few hours except if the government wishes for it to do so
There is massive evidence of...
