There are more edifying ways to spend a Sunday evening, but a Twitter Spaces conversation piqued curiosity. It was conducted by an Indian-origin man sitting in Sydney. It prominently featured a retired IPS officer who had made his saffron side clear while in service and other “civilisational Hindus” as they called themselves. The drumbeat of that conversation was a familiar one—how the Constitution of India “subjugates” Hinduism and why Hindus must fight for “equal rights”. The sheer irony escaped them.
A few hours earlier, a group gathered at Jantar Mantar near Parliament, lustily raising slogans that Muslims would scream “Ram Ram” when slaughtered, and anyone living in India would have to chant “Jai Shri Ram”. Men, women and children had joined under the aegis of Bharat Jodo Andolan, the “J” perhaps a euphemism for a “T”.
One of the organisers, BJP’s former spokesperson for Delhi and Supreme Court advocate Ashwini Upadhyay and colleagues were arrested nearly 48 hours later despite police presence at the venue and videos of the slogans widely available. It took considerable public outrage about the genocidal chants for Delhi Police to even register a case against “unknown
— source newsclick.in | Smruti Koppikar | 11 Aug 2021