Articles by: People's Alliance for Democracy and Secularism

Lockdown or Curfew?

Lockdown or Curfew?

India is passing through the second stage of the most serious health crisis in its recent history. How we respond to it as a society is crucial to mitigating the effect of COVID 19 virus on our individual health. Democracy is ultimately a system of social relationships, of everyone with everybody else that respects the twin principles of equality and[Read More…]

by 26/03/2020 Comments are Disabled India
UP Dy CM Intimidates State Officers Who Expressed Opinion Against Communalism

UP Dy CM Intimidates State Officers Who Expressed Opinion Against Communalism

People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS) condemns remarks made by the UP Dy CM Mr KC Maurya against District Magistrate of Bareilly as pure intimidation and a brazen effort to browbeat officers who express their opinion against communalism.In an FB post put up after the recent Kasganj communal violence the officer Mr Raghvendra Vikram Singh had questioned the increasing[Read More…]

by 09/02/2018 Comments are Disabled Communal Harmony
Release Akhil Gogoi And Chandrasekhar Ravan

Release Akhil Gogoi And Chandrasekhar Ravan

Akhil Gogoi, the leader of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti of Asom, and Chandrasekhar of Bhim Sena in Western Uttar Pradesh have been under detention for many months now. Akhil was arrested on 13 September under sedition charges by the BJP government of the state. On 25 September a total of 122 cases against him were clubbed together under the National[Read More…]

by 30/11/2017 Comments are Disabled Human Rights
Continuing Caste Violence In Saharanpur, UP

Continuing Caste Violence In Saharanpur, UP

Fifty five Dalit houses were burnt down during the afternoon of May 5 in Shabbirpur village of Saharanpur in northern UP. Attackers belonged to the dominant Rajput community of the area. They were armed with swords, spears, and lathis, and numbered about three thousand. Several other houses were looted, and fifteen motorcycles were burnt. Twelve Dalits received serious injuries. One[Read More…]