🔷November 7, 1966: The day the state answered a peaceful demand for cow protection with bullets. If you think BJP is doing dictatorship by deploying police and crpf at jantar mantar, you don't know what Indira Gandhi’s government did to the sadhus outside Parliament. Save Democracy” is a new Theme: just google when Congress opened fire on saints in 1966 and made the casualties disappear before sunrise! On the auspicious day of Gopashtami, hundreds of thousands of people, including a massive contingent of Naga Sadhus led by Swami Karpatri Ji Maharaj gathered peacefully in Delhi. Their demand was straightforward: a nationwide ban on cow slaughter, aligned with the Directive Principles of the Indian Constitution.
🔷While modern commentators obsess over the current political landscape, they conveniently erase the darkest chapters of the past. While peaceful saints stood up for the Directive Principles of the Constitution, Indira Gandhi's administration cleared the streets with literal gunfire. Government authorized live ammunition against the ascetics. Rifle fire ripped through the crowd outside the gates of democracy.
🔷Before lecturing anyone on democratic values, let's open the archives they tried to bury.
🔷The Ultimate Double Standard: Why the Mainstream Media and CJP and Dhruv Rathee, stay Silent on the 1966 Sadhu Massacre While Lecturing on Modern Democracy and rights?
🔷Before anyone lectures the public today about the erosion of democratic values or the suppression of dissent, they need to answer for November 7, 1966. Democracy wasn't compromised recently—the precedent of using lethal state force and wiping the bodies off the record books was drawn decades ago.
What are your thoughts on this forgotten chapter? Why is this completely omitted from our standard history textbooks?
