Experiences of local Hindu activists during ‘Bhojshala Mukti Andolan’

Phalgun Shuklapaksha 7, Kaliyug Varsha 5114


On 15th February i.e. the day of ‘Vasant-Panchami’, Hindus should be allowed to perform ‘puja’ in ‘Bhojshala’ for the whole day and Muslims should not be allowed to read ‘namaz’ on that day, were the demands of ‘Bhojshala Mukti Yadnya Samiti’ and its national convener, Shri. Navalkishore Sharma had staged agitation for the same. Anti-Dharma BJP Government in MP, however, arrested Shri. Navalkishore Sharma to crush this agitation and tortured him. Given below are details about the incidents in this connection by Shri. VInay Panwalkar, the North-India Coordinator of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS).

1. Harassment of Shri. Navalkishore Sharma

1 a. Gun pointed at forehead of Shri. Navalkishore Sharma to kill him and he being constantly told about his impending death : Shri. Naval Kishore Sharma was caught at Jabalpur station. He was then made to walk for at least ten kilometers and taken to forest. During this, 3 times police pointed gun at his forehead and tried to kill him; but fortunately, with God’s grace, he was saved as at that time, phone calls from senior police officers were received. Shri. Naval Kishore Sharma was told that he might run away as far as he could but that day, his death was certain.

1 b. Police inform about keeping him in ICU as his condition was going to be so bad : Shri. Naval Kishore was shifted to ICU of Government hospital in Indore. Shri. Sharma asked police as to why he was being kept in ICU on which police informed him that his condition was going to be made so bad that he would have to be kept in ICU.

1 c. Torturing in horrible manner : In police custody, Shri. Sharma was tied upside down with his feet also tied with a rope along with his associates and was brutally beaten up with sticks.        

1 d. Shri. Navalkishore Sharma was shifted to basement of hospital and falsely declared that he was shifted to Dhar; his family was not allowed to meet him : I had gone to Indore Government hospital with Shankaracharya Swami Narendrananda Saraswati to meet Navalkishore. He was in fact, shifted to the basement of the hospital. After we left, he was taken to Badwani jail; but we or his family members were not allowed to meet him.

2. Police appeal to Hindus to go to temple; after they going there police beat them; later, to misguide people, police, dressed in plain clothes posing as Hindus, tell Hindus to go to temple : On Magh Shuklapaksha Panchami, Kali Yuga Varsha 5114 (15.2.2013), the day of ‘Vasant-Panchami’, Muslims read ‘namaz’ between 1.00 p.m. and 3.00 p.m. Hindus were afraid of going to temple due to day’s previous ‘lathi-charge’. At that time, police made an appeal, on loudspeakers, to Hindus to go to temple. After Hindus went to temple, police suddenly started ‘beating up Hindus with cane at 4.30 p.m.; but some police were standing outside the temple in plain clothes posing as Hindus so that outside people did not know about the ‘lathi-charge’.  Those police were misguiding Hindus by informing that everything was peaceful in the temple;  not to believe in rumours and go for ‘darshan’. Two policemen were standing near the gates dressed up as ‘Sadhus’ advising Hindus to go to temple. At 5.30 p.m. also Hindus were terrorized by beating them with ‘lathis’.

3. Activists organizing Acharya Dharmendraji’s meeting, detained by police and citing example of Shri. Navalkishore, were threatened by police : Police had detained the activists, who had organized meeting of Acharya Dharmendraji. Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Shri. Padmalochan Shukla and Mahu BJP President, Shri. Ashok Mawal were present in the police station At that time. The ASP said to one activist, “How we have implicated Naval in false case of gun; similarly, we will keep RDX and catch you to rot in jail permanently.”   

4. Shri. Harsha Sharma was dragged when he was having food and taken forcibly by police.

5. Cruel police give false reason and implicate a Hindu, the only bread-winner of family : Shri. Sanjay Vishwakarma took part in the rally taken out in the year 2006 carrying picture of Saraswati Devi. Police had brutally beaten him up. He was working in a village about 50 kms from Mahu (He is a carpenter and only earning member in the family) when police called him giving reason of getting his signature on some paper but which was a lie. After his going there, he was deceived and since then he is put in jail.   

Source : Dainik Sanatan Prabhat

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