#NotInMyName is trending on twitter in India since Wednesday morning. People are tweeting their messages to protest against the recent incidents of mob lynching. A twitter user Kawal Preet has tweeted her picture with a paper in her hands that says, “I am a citizen of India and I stand with the secular values of our constitution. I will unite against communal mob lynching of Muslims in our country.”
Facebook Event created for Delhi protests says, “Not In My Name is a citizens protest against the recent spate of targeted lynchings of Muslims in India – the most recent of 16 year old Junaid, stabbed to death on a suburban train on 23 June 2017 in Delhi (NCR).”
There have been several incidents of mob lynching in past few weeks. Last week two brothers were attacked in a train to Ballabhgarh near Faridabad. One of them lost his life.
A study by Delna Abraham & Ojaswi Rao published in FirstPost claims that Since 2010, 97% of beef-related violence took place after Modi govt came to power. Delna Abraham & Ojaswi Rao writes, “Muslims were the target of 51% of violence centred on bovine issues over nearly eight years (2010 to 2017) and comprised 86% of 28 Indians killed in 63 incidents, according to an IndiaSpend content analysis of the English media. As many of 97% of these attacks were reported after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government came to power in May 2014, and about half the cow-related violence–32 of 63 cases–were from states governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) when the attacks were reported, revealed our analysis of violence recorded until June 25, 2017.”
Renowned columnist Pratap Bhanu Mehta has raised this issue in his article in Indian Express. He writes, “Junaid Khan, Mohammad Akhlaq, Pehlu Khan, Zahid Rasool Bhat, Abu Hanifa, Riazuddin Ali, Zafar Hussain, Ayub Pandit. The list can go on, will tragically go on, in a republic whose only near certain headline these days is a lynching. The protests will come, hesitant and muted. But even the tag line of the protest, “Not In My Name”, will, unconsciously, betray a sense of numb helplessness.”
Except Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Allahabad and many other Indian cities, #NotInMyName protests are also happening in London. Twitter user Kunal Purohit has tweeted, “In London, the SOAS India Society will be holding simultaneous protests in solidarity with #NotInMyName protests against Mob lynchings.”
Though, there are some who feel that BJP is being targeted through such protests. Some have voiced their opinion against #NotInMyName protests too. Journalist Rahul Roshan tweets, “No liberal said #NotInMyName when BJP/RSS guys were butchered to "fight fascism". Because they entirely supported the killings. Keep it up.”
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