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NEW DELHI – Hours before the third incident of shooting near Jamia Millia Islamia, BJP released an election video song that targets Shaheen Bagh and calling the anti- CAA protesters “Dhongi” and those who are spreading the fire of hate; an allegation that BJP itself is faced with.
At Shaheen Bagh, women have occupied a stretch of the road and have been running a protest sit-in for the last 51 days against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
The three-minute video song resorts to use of words like “Dhongi” and “Farebi” for anti- CAA protesters while running the images of JNU students union president Aishe Gosh and activists Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid addressing anti-CAA protest gatherings and calls them “traitors”. It refers to Delhi CM and Aam Admi president Arvind Kejriwal as a supporter of the anti-CAA protesters.
“Since the protestors failed in Kashmir,” the song says, “Now they came to Delhi and started hundreds of Shaheen Baghs here”
The divisive song exhorts the people of Delhi to “wake up from the slumber and rise against the growing strength of the protesters while depicting visuals of Muslim worshipers moving around at the historic Jama Masjid of Delhi.
BJP campaign song calls muslims traitors, talks about Akhand Bharat and is Islamophobic. https://t.co/9yay5OP2rl
— Muhammad Raafi’ (@MohammadRaafi) February 3, 2020
The video mentions Akhand Bharat (the idea of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan as one Hindu nation), and blames the protesters for the 1947 Partition.
One of the objections critics raise over CAA is that it fails to furnish a sound reason for restricting the relief to only three countries — Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. They say that the act is in line with the agenda of the BJP to make India a Hindu Rashtra.
On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the anti-CAA agitators in Shaheen Bagh and other areas, saying the protest against the new citizenship law was an “experiment” and a political design worked behind it, which would ruin national harmony.
The series of firing incidents have triggered a debate over the use of violence by Hindutva parties during the ongoing Delhi election campaign that has been marked by toxic communal speeches by top faces of the BJP including central ministers like Anurag Thakur and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath.
On Saturday, during a rally, the rabble-rousing UP chief minister exhorted the crowd that “when talks do not work, bullets have to be used against the protesters at sit-ins over CAA.}
The opposition parties including the Aam Aadmi Party have accused the BJP of trying to polarise voters by attacking the protesters who have been repeatedly saying that their protests have nothing to do with the assembly elections on February 8.
