From People's
Review:
When
Shambhulal Raigar brutally lynched Mohammad Afrazul Shaikh and then burned him
in Rajsamand of Rajasthan,
a few hours drive from Jaipur, he was sure that this act will make him a
celebrity; he knew, from his accurate understanding of the undergoing trends of
the Indian politics that he will be absolved of all his crimes under the
present regime and system, which openly condemns a man to death to “please the
collective sentiments of the majority” community. Shambhulal Raigar was
correct. His action, his video and his rhetoric justifying the ghastly murder
made him a hero whom the Hindutva camp
now hails through its millions of social-media faces.
Shambhulal Raigar is accoladed with loads of titles by
the Hindutva camp; from a harbinger of Hindutva resurgence to a man of virtue,
he has them all, at a time, when hardcore Hindutva fanatic propagandists like
Kanchan Gupta or Swapan Dasgupta Googles incessantly to find out similar
incidents of violence, brutal lynching and burning alive of “persecuted Hindus”
during the reign of Congress or
the Mughals to shield their boss Narendra Modi and his corporate
fundraisers and to justify the fat pay packs they get for whitewashing the
crimes committed by the Hindutva camp.
Afrazul Shaikh was a migrant labourer from Malda district
of West Bengal who,
like millions of others, migrated to Rajasthan to work as a daily labourer and
then, after 20 years of struggle, managed to become a small-scale labour contractor who
would supply contract labourers for a multitude of works in the region. He was
nearly 50 and had been living in Rajsamand for years now. Shambhulal Raigar
didn’t know Afrazul Shaikh, except for the fact that he was a migrant Muslim
and on that criteria, he fitted well to be a prey that the Hindutva fascist
monster was looking for. After luring him with a work proposal, Shambhulal
Raigar took him to a secluded jungle and then brutally murdered him by axing
and then burned him, while Afrazul gasped for last few breaths amidst hefty
bleeding. The nephew of Shambhulal Raigar, a 15-year-old, was shooting the
video of the gruesome act with unshaky hands. Who said radicalised youth are
found only in Madrassas?
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