In such a situation, when the parliament is in session is nothing but natural that the house should discuss the matter with utmost priority. But the government is relentlessly trying not to provide a space for such an essential matter to be debated. They are shameless in arguing that the appropriate time for such a debate would come only after holy. When tens of thousands of innocent people, mostly from minorities and other deprived sections are living under the cloud of fear and sorrows, the government is planning to shower unholy water of celebration hypocritically over the masses. They vehemently insist that the parliament should not discuss it now. They owe an explanation before the nation, whether the sky would fall down if the parliament discuss this most pressing issue of today's India.

The communal riots in Delhi was never accidental. It was part of a grand design incubated by the fascist ideology to divide the people. The unconstitutional adventure behind CAA, NPR, NRC is meant for that purpose only. Its sole aim was to make religion the basis of citizenship. While doing so they were hitting at the fundamental edifice of secularism on which modern India is built-up. With their brutal majority of numbers in Parliament, they steam-rollered the legislation. They calculated that through the CAA a dividing line will be drawn between the Hindus and Muslims which would serve the majoritarian politics. But it backfired and the people of India came out to oppose CAA, NPR, NRC. RSS-BJP could see the heat of isolation when the citizens irrespective of religion stood against them. The campuses of the country all of a sudden became the fortress of resistance.

The women in Shaheen Bagh and elsewhere wrote a new saga of patriotic struggle. Repeated acts of provocation masked and unmasked could not succeed in diffusing the vigour of the committed struggles. Giving shock to the patriarchs of communal fascism, waves of resistance gathered momentum for weeks and months together. Out of the shock RSS-BJP plotted the communal riots. Series of hate speeches like 'Goli Maro...' emanated from top leaders including Ministers and MPs. Finally, when the riot broke out the government abetted it by allowing the rioters to vandalize the National Capital. Even while innocent people were killed, the police were not seen on the scene.

The Home Minister who controls the Delhi police was absent conspicuously. The Prime Minister known for his rhetoric and speech opened his mouth only on the 5th day. It was enough for the field marshals of the riots to accomplish their targets. Delhi became a helpless prey for the predators of violence. 2020 Delhi riots and 2002 Gujarat riots have many common features. Both of them are government sponsored riots. 2002 Gujarat Chief Minister has become Indian Prime Minister in 2020 and the then state Home minister is now the union Home Minister. Their role in the successful implementation of the riots cannot be hidden by any number of political gimmicks. Exactly because of this, the ruling dispensation is bent to prevent a parliamentary debate on this national concern.

Let them look around and see how the world has responded to the Delhi riots. In many foreign capitals there were protest marches before Indian embassies. A debate took place in British Parliament. Several countries have come out openly against the communal killings. The riots have badly affected already worsened economic conditions of the nation. It has affected the international image of India badly. The UN Human Rights Commission has joined the suit by approaching the Supreme Court of India. In this background it is only appropriate that the Indian Parliament should discuss the most pressing concerns of its people.

The Parliament is the unquestionable representative body of the people. That is why it is considered to be supreme in a democracy. The executive is accountable to the parliament. The government has no authority, whatsoever to stall a debate on a vital issue in the parliament. It can never be imagined as the dancing doll to play to the tunes of a Prime Minister or a Home Minister. India is much bigger than the fascistic framework of their narrow mind. Parliament is here to uphold the concerns and aspirations of the people of India. They are the masters. While the Parliament is answerable only to the people, the Government is answerable to the Parliament. That is why the demand is reverberating: discuss the Delhi riots here and now! (IPA Service)