Lynching, defined as a premeditated extrajudicial killing by a group is shameful for any constitutional republic. The ‘Rule of Law’ must prevail in the nation otherwise the law of jungle (survival of the fittest) will take over and this is not good any modern democratic society.
In India, caste-related violence and targeting people of particular religions has been going on since long. This goes on for both sides, the cases where Muslims are lynched by Hindu majority gets a lot of media attention but when the opposite happens, there is little furore. However, lynching could not be accepted in democratic constitutional republic irrespective of caste, religion, gender of the victim and criminal group.
Therefore last year the government had constituted an empowered Group of Ministers (GoM) to suggest the measures to combat lynching. The Group of Ministers met two times last tenure of Modi government but is yet to meet in this term. Since this empowered Group of Ministers was position-specific (Head of Ministries) therefore there is no need to reconstitute and the heads of the respective ministries will take the respective charges.
Now the Group of Ministers will be headed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The other members of the Amit Shah headed group include External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot.
Yogi government is also considering a mob lynching bill with the harshest punishments for all those involved in such a crime. The Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission has submitted a rock-solid report to the UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, in which the penalties and even jail time for mob violence and lynchings have been postulated.
It is a popular belief among anti-BJP vocalists that lynchings and mob violence have started occurring in India only after 2014 and that the presence of a BJP government at the Centre is the core cause of these criminalities. When asked for facts and data to substantiate these claims, the coterie falls silent. A law particularly pertaining to mob lynching shall deter such heinous crimes and also bust that narrative against the majority community in India.
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Popular Twitter personality, Anand Ranganathan has curated a comprehensive and bold thread over a period of a few years, busting the belief that mob lynchings are done only by Hindus. He mentions the murders and lynchings of people including Hindus under the hands of mobs of rogue members of other communities over communal matters. The purpose of such a thread is to counter the one-sided narrative against the Hindu community.
He has listed out the ruthless murders of Ankit Saxena, Dhruv Tyagi, two elderly Sadhus that protested against cow smuggling, and hundreds of other communal incidents with mob lynchings. Such events are usually completely blacked out as the media, especially the English media, overlooks these crimes, and selectively curates incidents that support an anti-Hindu agenda. Such incidents, as in the case of Bharat Yadav, who was called a Kaafir before being lynched to death or the lynching and murder of Gangaram in Meerut, who filed a complaint against the kidnapping of his 13-year-old daughter, are not met with ‘Not In My Name’ protests.
The empowered Group of Minister headed by Amit Shah will address the cases of lynching genuinely. Proper data and record about the cases will be available with the government and one-sided narrative of the left-liberal media will be exposed.
