: Meet the 25-year-old law student who took on hate speech makers in Haridwar #IndiaNEWS Gulbahar Qureshi lives barely 10 km from Ved Niketan Ashram in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar, where hundreds of Hindu

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Meet the 25-year-old law student who took on hate speech makers in Haridwar #IndiaNEWS
Gulbahar Qureshi lives barely 10 km from Ved Niketan Ashram in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar, where hundreds of Hindu supremacists gathered for a three-day conclave in December and speaker after speaker called for Muslims to be killed. Videos of the hate speeches soon went viral.“After I heard these men speak my instant reaction was that the Constitution, its spirit, was under attack,� Qureshi said. “I felt like if I don’t do something about it then these people would only get more emboldened.�Qureshi is a 25-year-old final-year law student.On the evening of December 23, he walked into the Kotwali police station in Haridwar with two friends and handed over a complaint and a pen-drive to the police. On the pen-drive were videos of the event where Sadhvi Annapurna of the Hindu Mahasabha could be heard saying, “If 100 of us are ready to kill 20 lakh of them, then we will be victorious.� Another Hindu monk, Dharamdas Maharaj, called for the assassination of former prime minister Manmohan Singh, while one of the organisers of the event, Yati Narsinghanand, promised Rs 1 crore to anyone willing to become a Prabhakaran or a Bhindranwale to target Muslims.Qureshi knew that filing a complaint against the hate speech-makers was an act of courage. Uttarakhand is ruled by the Bharatiya...Read more

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