Sonipat, Feb 9: In a shocking development, OP Jindal University in Sonipat, Haryana hosted a controversial event endorsing the destruction of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya and the construction of a mosque over it.

 

This incident came to light after the Revolutionary Students’ League (R.S.L), an organization of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) organized an event at the OP Jindal Global University titled "Ram Mandir: A Farcical Project of Brahmanical Hindutva Fascism" on February 7. The left-leaning students called for the demolition of the Ram Mandir and the construction of a mosque in its place.

 

 

 

According to them, Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha "exposed the open, naked violence and anti-people nature of the Brahmanical Hindutva fascist State, with hate crimes rising against Muslims and Dalits across India, coupled with the saffronisation of campuses, schools and other institutions."

 

In its event brochure, Revolutionary Students' League urged the attendees to read the contentious book “Fight Brahmanical Hindutva Fascism” by Bhima Koregaon accused Varavara Rao.

 

The book by Varavara Rao has glorified Mohammad Akhlaq, Prof. M M Kalburgi, and Yakub Memon and called their killings as it symbolizes in many ways the prevailing situation in the country under Modi-led BJP-rule. It reads, "Akhlaq was bludgeoned to death at his Dadri home in September by a lynch mob that was instigated, mobilised and led by a bunch of Sanghi goons after maliciously spreading the rumour of beef-eating.”

 

 

 

“Prof. Kulbargi was shot dead by unidentified Hindutva-fascist assassins because of his consistent and irrepressible opposition to their designs in Karnataka. Memon was hanged this July in Nagpur jail after his conviction in the 1993 Mumbai blasts in a travesty of justice. For the self-appointed gendarmes of the ‘Hindu Rashtra’, to eat something of one’s choice is anti-national, to voice dissent is anti-national, to be even the brother of a Muslim who is accused of so-called anti-national activities is anti-national- ‘crimes’ that are punishable by death according to the Manuvadi Hindutva-fascists,” it continued.

 

“Whether the execution is carried out judicially by the state or by any of the numerous murderous gangs raised by the hydra-headed RSS, it makes little difference to the person at the receiving end. These killings (and those of Govind Phansade and Narendra Dabholkar earlier) are but a few of the more talked-about incidents in what has become a continuous barrage of attacks carried out in many forms by the Hindutva-fascists across the country,” the article further stated.

 

It added, “Particularly since the BJP government came to power, such attacks are taking place almost on a daily basis. Though termed by some as ‘intolerance’, this is part of an all-round attack by the Brahmanical Hindu fascist forces against the people, affecting all spheres of their lives.”

“These attacks are simultaneously ideological, political, social, religious, ethnic, economic, cultural, juridical, and environmental—carried out with violent and non-violent, legal and illegal, constitutional and extra-constitutional means,” reads the article.

 

However, it is not the first time that such anti-Hindu activity took place in OP Jindal Global University. Earlier too, the university has come under the scanner for controversies ranging from charges of academic harassment and giving a platform to antisemitic and anti-Hindu views.