Jagjivan Ram, former Deputy Prime Minister of India, said in Delhi on Feb. 6 that posters threatening Muslims were appearing in the city and in other parts of the country. These were creating terror among Muslims. If the Government was secular, why it could not prosecute the people for publishing such material.
“Freedom demands sacrifice and love”, Jagjivan Ram pointed out and asked the poor people to rise and unite so that Moradabad, Bihar Sharief, Aligarh, Pune, Sadopur, Saharanpur Narainpur, Belchi and Jamshedpur communal incidents were not repeated. In the country whose Government played Holi with the blood of the poor people, this festival should not be celebrated. Those people, who talked of a “Hindu Rashtra””, perhaps did not know that Muslims were as much part of India as Hindus, he said. (Statesman Feb. 7)
