Kozhikode: “This battle is not just for Sanjeev Bhat; it will continue until justice is served to all the wrongfully confined people in this country”, says Sweta Bhat in her inaugural speech at The Dignity Conference organised by Fraternity Movement Kerala. The imprisonment of Sanjeev Bhat will not cover the truths he brought to the people. The Government wants us to submit to them. She added that Sanjeev Bhat has shown us that the state cannot silence the voices for justice with their scare tactics.“The nation will witness the second wave of citizenship movement if the government is planning to go forward with the Citizenship Amendment Act”, says Asim Khan, national president of Fraternity Movement, in his keynote address at the Dignity Conference.
K.M. Shefrin, president of Fraternity Movement Kerala, stated that “the mainstream opposition has always backed the genocidal politics. The student opposition is only the remaining hope for the future. The recent action against a Dalit student in NIT Calicut following a protest against Hindutva fascism and the grave silence prevailing among the mainstream opposition political parties point out the necessity of such a social movement.
Dignity Conference, which imagines the creation of a fraternal unity among different social groups against the state’s witch-hunt and Hindutva Racism, is also a solidarity congress for the victims of the Hindutva genocidal politics.
Sweta Bhat, wife of Sanjeev Bhat, a former IPS Officer who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned by the Hindutva Government for revealing the role played by Narendra Modi in orchestrating the 2002 Gujarat genocide.
The Conference is happening at a peculiar turn in history where the Zionist and Hindutva forces joined hands towards building a homogenous ethnic identity through forced deportation and genocide in Gaza and the cleansing of targetted minorities in India under the name of ‘Ramjanmbhumi’ movements.
The majority of the underprivileged population of India belongs to religious and cultural sects that are distinct from the Hindutva politics endorsed by Sangh Parivar. The rise of Mandal Movements, which witnessed a sense of unity among these socially challenged communities, fuelled the Savrnas to create the ‘Ramjanmabhumi’ movement to create a spiritual unification among different sections of Hinduism by portraying the Muslim community as the enemies. This conference also aims at reviving the concepts propagated through the Mandal movement which highlighted the inter-sectional fraternity to resist the futile dreams of the Hindutva fascists rooted in Hindu essentialism.
Dignity Conference is a constructive step towards ensuring every citizen a life with dignity, not only as an individual but also as part of the chosen ethnic communities. More than 2000 delegates comprising students and youth, attended the conference inaugurated by Sweta Bhatt. Families of Umar Khalid and Vinayakan, Fraternity Movement National President Asmi Khan, Welfare Party state president Razak Paleri, welfare Party General Secretary S Irshad, Film Director Arun Raj, Leela Santhosh, Kannan Sidharth, Harshad, former national presidents of fraternity movement Ansar Aboobacker, Shamseer Ibraheem, Film direct and scriptwriter Muhsin Parari, Film Director Shamal Sulaiman, Dr Sadhik PK, Alen Shuaib, Sidheek Kapan, Jyothivas Paravoor, Shamal Sulaiman, Fayisa VA, Waseem RS, Najda Raihan, KV Safeersha, Ashraf KK and Student activist Raniya Sulaikha FITU state president Jyothivas Paravur will interact in different sessions.
