Supreme Court Advocate and National spokesperson for Youth Congress Avani Bansal along with Advocate Prakhar Dixit and Prashant Dubey has filed a police complaint with the Delhi Police against the hate speech delivered by Chairman and Managing Director(CMD) & Editor-in-Chief of the Sudarshan News TV, Suresh Chavhanke on December 19, at Delhi where he openly called for killing, if need be to make India a Hindu Rashtra. The advocate has urged Delhi police to register an FIR for the same as soon as possible.
A complaint letter addressed to the commissioner of police, Rakesh Asthana was sent by the complainants, where the letter brought attention of the authorities towards an event organized by Hindu Yuva Vahini on December 19 at Banarsidas Chandiwala Auditorium, Near Govindpuri Metro Station, in Delhi. The Hindu Yuva Vahini is a Hindu religious group. The said even was presided by the CMD and Editorin-Chief of Sudarshan News, Suresh Chavhanke where he delivered a hate speech.
Few sentences/phrases from the hate speech delivered by Chavhanke at the event are mentioned below:-
- “We take oath to make India a Hindu nation, and keep it a Hindu only nation, and today we make this a resolution and we give our word until our last breath.”
- “If required we will kill as well and we will also fight and die when required.”
- “There will be no hesitation in making any sacrifice at any cost.”
A complete video of the oath administering event was shared by Chavhanke on his twitter handle and the said video is being circulated widely by the mainstream media, social media and his followers. .
The said event was attended by a number of people including the divisional incharge of Hindu Yuva Vahini for the Gorakhpur division, Rajeshwar Singh, Hindu Yuva Vahini Delhi president, Rajiv Kumar, Delhi state incharge, Prempal Gupta and Udhay Bhan Singh.
At the event organized by the Hindu Yuva Vahini, the speakers while in process of delivering the said hate speech called in for killing of people in the name of religion and used provocative and inflammatory sentences while administering the oath.The accused persons also administered an oath to a large group of people encouraging feelings of hatred and communal violence and fan the flames of enmity between different groups based on their religion.
In the complaint letter it was emphasized that it is not the first time that Chavhanke has made such statements which are irresponsible and communal in nature. Recently Chavhanke made remarks about the minority community for the increasing number of people from Muslim religion entering the bureaucracy and called it a conspiracy. Hence strict action is demanded to set a precedent to save the secular nature of the country.
The complaint was undersigned by Prashant Dubey, Advocate Prakhar Dixit and Advocate. Avani Bansal.