UP Minister Azam Khan for UN intervention into 'miseries' of minorities in India

Lucknow Amid outcry over lynching of a50yearold Muslim man in Dadri senior Uttar Pradesh MinisterAzam Khan today sought intervention of United Nations to lookinto the miseries of minorities in IndiaIn a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Kimoon Khan alsoattacked RSS accusing it of working to turn secular andpluralistic India into a majoritarian theocratic nation asHindu Rashtra Facist forces are attempting to create a divide in thesociety by launching a hate campaign against Muslims and Dadriincident is an example of this Khan told reporters hereUP Minister Azam KhanIn his letter the minister said there had been sporadicincidents of ethnic or communal clashes but the real essenceof freedom and secularism has never been under question orthreat as it was for last one and half yearsThe new government took oath in the name of Constitutionof India but its motivation inspiration and guiding lightalso comes from some other fundamentalist and extraconstitutional authority named RSS he saidKhan said Since the new government took charge and mostof its members have been longtime workers and cadres of RSSand its other affiliates they pledge their obedience to thisorganisation first and ideology or world view of thisorganisation is an article of faith for themHe alleged that in this regard most of the members of theUnion cabinet give mixed signal to society on the issue ofprotecting the interest of the minorities in the countryThe government provides tacit support to those campaignor programmes that create fear among minorities and intimidatethem he allegedI humbly request to the highest international body tolook into our miseries and take care of us and impress uponthe Indian government to stick to international agreements andallow to flourish secularism and plurality in the country andnot to push the agenda of extra constitutional authorities toturn India into theocratic majority Hindu nation he saidKhan also said he wanted President Pranab Mukhrjee and PMModi to call a round table conference and discuss campaignagainst Muslims in the name of beef and attempts to turn Indiainto a Hindu nationThe SP leader said the aggression of RSS and its affiliateorganisation has multiplied because they want to make Indiaminority free around 202223He alleged that Dadri incident was a grim reminder andsinister campaign of this organisation where one old Muslimman was lynched on the rumour of consuming beefKhan said that to form government in Bihar UP and otherstates RSS certainly needed an issue on which two communitiescome face to faceAfter Babri incident Dadri poll was held as it is closeto Delhi and the BJPruled central government found it easy touse its influence and create tension he alleged adding thatDadri was also political field of Union Home MinistersRajnath Singh sonPraising media he said that it exposed the preparationsfor genocide of Muslims in Dadri and facist forces thatfailed in their designsIf Muslims would have wanted to live in a country oftheir own religion then doors of Pakistan were open for themin 1947 but on the call of Gandhiji Sardar Patel and MaulanaAbul Kalam Azad they stayed back Thus they remained in asecular country he saidKhan said The mood in Bihar elections has changed Todaydevelopment caste and category is not an election issuethere The issue is that a finger is being pointed towardssomeone that he has consumed beef and he could be killedThe minister said that not only Hindus but even Muslimshave religious relation with cowOn BJP MLA Sangeet Soms statement in Dadri Khan saidSangeet Som can do what he sayswhen those in power want toeliminate someone then it will be hard to contest Situationin Iraq Libiya and Egypt is before usMy name figured in Muzaffarnagar riots I want to saythat conduct an inquiry by any international agency and if Iam found guilty even slightly then hang me I am an item forBJP They have nothing in their shop except my name They growcrop of hatered in my name he alleged