Activist Files Complaint Against Yogi Adityanath

Press Release

29 August, 2014
Countercurrents.org

To,        28th August 2014

     The Hon'ble Chairperson,

     National Commission for Minorities,

     Lok Nayak Bhavan,
      Khan Market,
     New Delhi 110 003.

Subject:  Immediate Action including registration of FIR be directed against Hindu Yuva Vahini, MP Yogi Adityanath for hate speech exhorting Muslim women to be raped, Muslims to be deprived of voting rights and Mosques to be converted to pig pens and suspension of officers of Uttar Pradesh police at this rally at Sidhartnagar for not intervening and stopping this rabid hate-speech in their presence.

Respected Sir ,

I would like to draw the urgent and immediate attention of  the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) towards  an extremely reprehensible and offensive set of remarks  , violative of variou s sections of the Indian Penal C ode,1860  made by members of the Hindu Yuva Vahini in presence of Yogi Adityanath, BJP MP from Gorakhpur.

video footage of the entire incident is being provided for your perusal. 

Video footage:  https://www.youtube.com/embed/uLXYzvI_FWs

The footage provided, clearly shows that the speaker says the following:

The above said is  in flagrant violation of section  153A,  295(A) , 298,504, 505  ( 1 )  (b) and (c), 505 (2) of IPC 1860 and  amounts to deliberately, intent ionally and maliciously outraging  the religious feeli ngs, inciting hatred and ill-will amongst communities. It also amounts to criminal intimidation and abetment of rape.  In addition to this the footage shows young men brandishing weapons and swords openly.

Yogi Adityanath, MP, is seen sharing the stage and his name is invoked by the Speaker while addressing the audience. He makes no attempt to clarify or distance himself from the hate-riddled views of the Speaker but endorses them tacitly. He too must be prosecuted for criminal conspiracy and abetment.
Recently, Yogi Adityanath was seen in another video  allegedly telling Hindu supporters to marry a hundred Muslim women for every Hindu woman marrying a Muslim and forcibly made to convert to Islam. Here is an independent news report confirming the same :  http://www.firstpost.com/india/watch-bjps-yogi-adityanath-tells-hindus-to-marry-a-100-muslim-women-1684103.html  . This video, provided in the news report link, shows that Yogi Adityanath has a history and reputation of spreading communal poison and hatred.

Finally, the UP Police officers of Sidharthnagar district are clearly seen in the footage but do nothing as such a speech is delivered openly. They neither proceed to stop it nor do they arrest the Speaker and his co-conspirators in this case of hate-speech, intimidation and exhortation f sexual violence.

In light  of these circumstances, it is humbly prayed before the NCM that

a) D irect the registration of an FIR in the i nstant case against the Speaker of the Hindu Yuva Vahini for  violation of various sect ions of IPC,1860 and direct immediate and appropriate penal action against Yogi Adityanath, MP for abetment and criminal conspiracy. Direct the National Commission for Women to take cognisance of the open exhortation to rape women.

b) Send report of the incident involving the MP Yogi Adityanath to the Ethics Committee of Parliament so that appropriate action can be taken by the Hon'Ble Speaker and the Committee against him.

c) Direct the suspension of the UP Police officers, seen in the footage, failing to act in the given case.

SHEHZAD  POONAWALLA

AGE: 26  YEARS

OCCUPATION:  LAWYER

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