Leaders of Opposition Parties Join Hands in Support of MASUKA

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Ghazanfar Abbas, IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, July 19: In their first show of seriousness and solidarity towards an anti-lynching draft law, eminent leaders of several Opposition political parties came on one stage here on Wednesday and supported MASUKA or Manav Suraksha Kanoon.

The political leaders present at the joint press conference for MASUKA at the Constitution Club of India included Digvijaya Singh, Shashi Tharoor and Salman Khurshid from Congress party, Sanjay Singh from Aam Aadmi Party, and Manoj K Jha from Rashtriya Janata Dal.

Activist and businessman Tehseen Poonawall, the brain behind the idea of MASUKA, and his team urged the central government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi “to bring this MASUKA law to Parliament and start a discussion on the need for such legislation.”

“Failing this, MPs will take up MASUKA as a Private Member’s Bill in Parliament,” they said.

A group of students leaders, political activists and legal professionals prepared MASUKA and released its draft to the public two weeks ago.

They want a specific law to deal with rise in mob violence and mob lynching in the name of cow, beef or anything.

In the last three months, around two dozen people, mostly Muslims, have been lynched over cow, beef or child theft rumours in different parts of the country. Most of the killings, however, have taken place in BJP-ruled states of Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Haryana.

Some Latest Cases of Lynching:

02 July: A man named Asadul was lynched by villagers in Jharkhand’s Sahibganj district as he was allegedly trying to run away after murdering his wife.

29 June: Mohd Allimuddin, a resident of Hazaribagh district in Jharkhand, was beaten to death by a mob in Ramgarh district of the same state on suspicion that he was carrying beef in his vehicle.

22 June: Three people identified as Mohammad Nasir, Nasirul Haque and Mohammad Samiruddin were lynched in West Bengal’s North Dinajpur district after they were allegedly caught stealing cows from a house.

22 June: A minor named Junaid Khan, 16, was beaten and stabbed to death by a group of people in a running train in Haryana.

16 June: Social activist Zafar Khan was allegedly beaten to death by municipality employees in Pratapgarh district of Rajasthan when he objected to them taking photos of women defecating in the open.

18 May: Four people named Naeem, Khali, Farzu and Raju were lynched in Seraikela-Kharsawa district of Jharkhand on suspicion of being child lifter.

18 May: Three people named Vikas Kumar Verma, Uttam Kumar Verma and Ganesh Kumar Gupta were lynched in Singhbhum district of Jharkhand on suspicion of being child lifter.

02 May: Ghulam Mohammad, 45, was killed by a group of men for allegedly helping an inter-faith couple in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh.

30 April: Two persons named Abu Hanifa and Riazuddin Ali were lynched by a mob in Nagaon district of Assam on suspicion of stealing cattle.

01April: Haryana dairy farmer Pehlu Khan, 55, was lynched in Alwar district of Rajasthan.
(Data compiled by IndiaTomorrow.net)

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