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Malegaon:
On the first anniversary of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack,
he walked from Bhiwandi to Mumbai. On the second, from Bhikku
Chowk in Malegaon to Mumbai he went on motorcycle. Now he is on
his way to New Delhi from Bhiwandi on motorcycle, all to ensure
that peace and justice extended to everyone in India.
Fakhare-Alam Khan Azmi is a journalist associated with an Urdu
weekly in Bhiwandi – a town some 50 kms to Mumbai dominated by
Muslims and famous for textile industry. On his way to New Delhi
in the midst of Bhiwandi se Dilli tak Ekta Yatra- the march on
motorcycle Fakhare-Alam has initiated with two of his friends, he
was in Malegaon on March 12.
Ask him about the motive behind his yatra and he says: “Even after
the investigations revealed that the hardline Hindu terrorists are
involved in clear anti national activities, the government is not
doing enough against them. Hence I decided to initiate this
motorcycle yatra from Bhiwandi to New Delhi. In the national
capital, we will meet the President of India and request her to
intervene in the matter.”
“We will urge the president to intervene because these are the
very people who were till recently dividing the country on
communal lines by staging riots and now they are trying to achieve
the same target by masterminding bomb blasts”, he said while
speaking to ummid.com.
“The successive governments so far have been lenient towards them.
We were also ignorant about their destructive activities in these
many years. The result is that they have grown so strong that they
are now planning for overthrowing the secular Indian government”,
he added.
“Worse”, he said, “While these forces were enjoying leniency,
innocent Muslims were paying for the wrongdoings of these very
people and for the crimes they were not responsible for.”
“Now, even after most of the things have become clear, specially
after Swami Aseemanand’s confession, there seems to be no breather
for the innocent Muslims, who are languishing in jail since many
years”, he said while referring to the Muslim youths from Malegaon
in prison since 2006.
“The time has now come for us to stand against them and urge the
government to take urgent and swift action against these people”,
he said.
Fakhare-Alam has already sought appointment from the president
through the government officials in Bhiwandi and he is expected to
reach the national capital on March 18. Before meeting the
president, he and his friends will sit for a day-long dharna at
Janar Mantar.
This is not the first time that Fakhare Alam has set for such a
yatra. On November 26, 2009 – the first anniversary of 26/11
Mumbai terror attack, he had walked with few of his friends from
Bhiwandi to Mumbai to join the mourners at Gateway of India.
On the second anniversary of the tragic incident, he had travelled
from Bhikku Chowk in Malegaon to Gateway of India in Mumbai on
motorcycle. Bhikku Chowk in Malegaon is the place that the
investigating agencies believe was targeted by the Hindu
terrorists on September 29, 2008. Fakhare Alam chose Bhikku Chowk
for his yatra because, as he says, it was the blast at this place
that helped to expose the hitherto hidden face of Hindu terrorism
in India.
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