29 Sep, 2023
Citizens for Justice and Peace
Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) was founded on the constitutional values of harmony, dialogue, and understanding between all sections of Indians. Our Hate Hatao campaign against hatred and hate speech is an effort to bring to account those who seek to divide Indian society along arbitrary lines for the sake of personal and political gain. Here we identify instances of hate speech as well hate offenders and serial hate offenders i.e people who routinely abuse their power to make statements that are not only hateful, but also capable of inciting violence.
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Hate Offenders
Meet the people peddling a hateful and divisive agenda
Radha Semwal
A far-right extremist from Uttarakhand, she is regularly seen physically and verbally attacking the minorities in the state. Her Facebook page is rife with anti-minority posts and she claims to be the protector of Uttarakhand which is a land of gods.
Pravin Togadia
Pravin Togadia is the founder and President of ‘Antar Rashtriya Hindu Parishad’, a far-right Hindutva group. He also founded the Rashtriya Bajrang Dal. Recently he has been delivering inflammatory speeches across Madhya Pradesh.
Kajal Hindustani alias Kajal Shingala
A self-proclaimed activist from Gujarat whose forte is cooking up bizarre conspiracies to demean and defame the Muslim community in an utterly vitriolic manner. She was arrested by the Gujarat Police on April 9, 2023 and was granted bail on April 13, 2023.
T Raja Singh, BJP MLA
BJP MLA T. Raja Singh, Goshamahal Assembly Constituency, is a serial hate offender who is known for delivering anti-Muslim, derogatory and offensive speeches. In all his speeches, Singh has been (and continues to) use the same instigating words, promoting the same divisive ideologies between the Hindu and Muslim community. The pattern of Singh’s speech are the same, invoke the aggressive protective senses of men towards their Hindu sisters and daughters, provoke them on the fictitious issue of Love-Jihad and Land Jihad, talk about cow slaughter, and then make violent appeals to physically harm Muslims as also working towards establishing a country without Muslims. Previously, he had openly threatened Uttar Pradesh’s Hindu voters to re-elect the Adityanath-led BJP government or else their houses will be identified and destroyed with bulldozers and JCBs.
Shiladitya Dev
Shiladitya Dev, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader who was previously the Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from the Hojai has been a serial hate offender and has been involved in making statements which are hate ridden and made with a motive to fuel the communal tensions between communities. His hate speech had led to an FIR at the Silchar police station in 2018 for allegedly making provocative statements to divide Assamese and Bengalis. A case also was filed in the same year in the court of chief judicial magistrate, Nagaon, against the BJP MLA for his frequent communal remarks on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state. Dev had alleged that Hindu refugees were being shown as foreigners, while the names of Bangladeshi Muslims were published in the final NRC.
In Aug 2020, multiple FIRs had been filed against him by several groups and individuals for particularly inciteful speeches. At the time when he had been widely condemned by Assamese society he had dared dubbed Assamese litterateur who happened to be a Muslim, an “intellectual jihadi.” A month after this incident, his communally motivated posts on Facebook were taken down after an investigation was conducted by the TIME Magazine.
In June 2022, Shiladitya Dev was a participant in a news channel debate, happening on NKTV, an Assamese language news channel, where he made a series of anti-minority comments during one such live debate on its channel. During this debate, Dev spoke in Assamese about the alleged influx of Bangladeshis into Assam. The gist of his speech was, “80 lakh Bangladeshi origin Muslims have illegally entered India,” and that “During partition Muslims had created a separate country for themselves. They should be grateful they are being allowed to live in India.”
Once again, on October 24, 2022, Dev unleashed words that were inciteful, provoking the wider community in the name of ‘Miya Museum’, a day after the museum was inaugurated. He started his diatribe with, "Assam is filled with Miyas, so why there is need of Miya Museum, it should set on fire and set ablaze." This was a brazen incitement to targeted violence. Shiladitya Dev has been making open calls of violence against the Bengali Muslims and targeting their community.
Ragini Tiwari
Ragini Tiwari alias Janki Behen is a self-proclaimed Hindutva leader from Bihar, previously accused of provoking peoplein connection with the farmers protest and the Delhi violence. During the February 2020 communal violence in Delhi, she broadcast a Facebook Live video saying that Hindus won’t tolerate more attacks against them and instigated them to come out and “Die or kill.” Even during the farmer’s protest, in a Facebook Live video, not only did she openly accept that she incited violence in Jaffrabad during the Delhi 2020 violence, but also threatened to recreate it. An FIR was lodged against her but she immediately went missing when the police were about to arrest her. However, two months ago, she resurfaced as she lead the “Naukri Jihad Band Karo” protests outside Pawan Hans Office premises in connection with the controversy that surfaced online over ‘only Muslim’ recruitment at Mini-Ratna Pawan Hans helicopter service.
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Mapping Hate: Nafrat ka Naqsha 2022
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Mapping Religion of Hate: Communalism
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