Left calls for observing Babri demolition anniversary as 'Black Day'

New Delhi, Nov 22: The Left parties, including the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India, on Wednesday called for observing the 25th anniversary of demolition of Babri Masjid on December 6 as a 'Black Sunday' in protest against the wilful demolition of the disputed structure in 1992. Terming the demolition as a 'brazen act', the Left parties flayed the act accomplished under the gaze of the authorities and law enforcing agencies under a Congress central government and a complicit BJP Government in Uttar Pradesh, that they said, remained the severest of attacks on the secular democratic foundations of the modern Indian republic. The appeal was issued jointly by the CPI(M), CPI, Communist Party of India (ML)- Liberation, Revolutionary Socialist Party, All India Forward Bloc and the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist).  Though a quarter of a century had passed since 'this blot on India’s secular democracy', the statement noted that no action had been taken till now against the organisers and perpetrators of the demolition, and said, who had violated the law of the land and irreversibly damaged India’s secular democratic foundations. Blaming RSS-sponsored Hindutva private armies led by BJP leaders for the Babri demolition, it said on Wednesday that such private armies, emboldened and patronised by the BJP in power, were acting like a law unto themselves. 'Instead of upholding the law of the land and proscribing such private armies, senior BJP leaders, including Ministers in the Central and various State Governments have openly endorsed, patronised, and promoted such private armies and rationalised or even celebrated their violent actions,' the statement issued here said. Pointing out that December 6 was also the death anniversary of Dr Babasheb Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian Constitution, the Left parties said it would observe the day by mounting a campaign against the intensification of the assaults on dalits by gau rakshaks across the country and on the secular democratic values of the Constitution by communal forces. 

The Left parties called upon their units to observe December 6 as a Black Day and to strengthen the struggle against communal polarisation being patronised and encouraged by the central as well as many BJP led state governments, the statement said. UNI