Dal Khalsa ac­tivist Prit­pal Singh briefs Swiss gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial of ris­ing in­tol­er­ance and sub­ju­ga­tion of Dal­its and mi­nori­ties in In­dia.

Per­turbed at the ris­ing in­tol­er­ance and hate crimes in In­dia, a Dal Khalsa del­e­ga­tion led by Prit­pal Singh met a se­nior Swiss gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial Ms Valérie Wag­ner and ap­prised her about the rise of Hindu rad­i­cal­ism in the coun­try.

Dal Khalsa sec­re­tary for hu­man rights Prit­pal Singh said that “mi­nori­ties and Dal­its in In­dia are reel­ing from ris­ing rad­i­cal­ism.”  “The lynch­ing of Dal­its and Mus­lims by cow vig­i­lantes and pseudo-pa­tri­ots has be­come or­der of the day. ‘In the name of cow’, Dal­its and Mus­lims are be­ing slaugh­tered by fren­zied mobs en­gi­neered by Hin­dutva el­e­ments” with the state ma­chin­ery watch­ing with awe and some­times par­tic­i­pat­ing in the crime.

Dal­its and Mus­lims are fac­ing worst kind of mob vi­o­lence all over the In­dia es­pe­cially in the cow-belt states. Not a day passes when they are not sub­jected to ha­tred and in­tol­er­ance, said he. He fur­ther told Swiss au­thor­i­ties that peo­ple are fast los­ing faith in democ­racy”.

Re­fer­ring to In­dian Prime Min­is­ter Mod­i’s con­dem­na­tion on rise of vi­o­lent at­tacks on cat­tle traders, beef eaters and dairy farm­ers, Singh told her that it’s too mild to re­verse the sit­u­a­tion. “PM’s empty words mi­nus ac­tion mean noth­ing”.

“Dal­its and Mus­lims are fac­ing worst kind of mob vi­o­lence all over the In­dia es­pe­cially in the cow-belt states. Not a day passes when they are not sub­jected to ha­tred and in­tol­er­ance, said he. He fur­ther told Swiss au­thor­i­ties that peo­ple are fast los­ing faith in democ­racy.”

Singh also dis­cussed the hu­man rights sit­u­a­tion in Kash­mir, Pun­jab and else­where with  Valérie Wag­ner who is in charge of Asia in the Hu­man Se­cu­rity Di­vi­sion at Fed­eral de­part­ment of For­eign Af­fairs.  the lady of­fi­cer. De­plor­ing the stud­ied si­lence of in­ter­na­tional com­mu­nity, he told the lady of­fi­cer in a one hour meet­ing at the Swiss Par­lia­ment in Bern that ‘Kash­mir is bleed­ing and the world is mum’. Even the United Na­tions is un­moved by suf­fer­ings and pain of Kash­miri peo­ple. Ac­com­pa­nied by hu­man rights ac­tivist Bis­han Singh, he urged the Swiss gov­ern­ment to press upon the UN to in­ter­vene.