“Go to Pakistan,” a senior UP police officer was recently heard telling anti Citizenship (Amendment) Act protesters in Meerut. A supposedly neutral law enforcer uttered a shocking, outrageous threat, yet why blame the police officer alone? All through 2019, critics, dissenters, protesters have been met with such refrains, hurled from the highest political quarters.
Home minister Amit Shah referred to Delhi protesters as tukde tukde gang who must be taught a lesson by the people. Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused urban naxals in a speech in Delhi. Minister Giriraj Singh has often exhorted dissenters to ‘go to Pakistan’. As a new decade begins, the Modi government needs a new approach and lexicon towards those who disagree and protest. No, protesters in Read More
