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Alok Agnihotri started this petition

We condemn in the strongest possible terms, the death threats being issued publicly and abuses being heaped on Dr. Ravi Kant, an Academician, well known Dalit Intellectual and Associate Professor of Hindi at the Lucknow University. Dr Ravi Kant is being targeted for his statement, in a discussion in the well-known online channel Satya TV, about the Gyan Vapi Mosque.  All Dr Ravi Kant did was to narrate a story from a book ‘Feathers and Stones’ written by Patabhi Sitaramaiya. Dr Ravi Kant said that he is calling it a story because Patabhi Sitaramaiya has not quoted a source. Those baying for Dr. Ravi Kant’s blood are the workers belonging to the ABVP, who have surrounded the Department of Hindi, while Dr. Ravi Kant has had to take shelter in the office of the proctor of the University. We demand that the culprits be brought to book immediately, the atmosphere of debate and dissent, so crucial for an institute of learning and essential for a democratic society be restored immediately and Dr. Ravi Kant and his family be provided all necessary protection. We view this aggressive display of the ABVP as yet another example of the intolerance and majoritarian sectarianism and violence that is increasingly becoming the norm all over the country, especially in BJP ruled States. We demand that elements giving public calls for extermination and annihilation be reigned in immediately, if we wish to be counted among the comity of civilized nations.   Rooprekha Verma Vandana Misra Ramesh Dixit Madhu Garg Virendra Yadav Meena Singh Nalin Ranjan Singh Navin Joshi Athar Husain Kaushal Kishore Katyayani Nadeem Hasnain Sabiha Anwar Dipak Kabir Usha Rai Arundhati Dhuru Meena Kala Asha Misra Lal Bahadur Singh Ram Dutt Tripathi Prabhat Patnaik Aditya Mukherjee Rekha Awasthi         Alok Agnihotri Advocate Indira Arjun Dev Vishwamohan Jha     Atlury Murali  K. L. Tuteja Ramakrishna Chatterjee   Lata Singh P.K. Shukla V. Ramakrishna Vikas Rawal Sheo Dutt Rajndra Kumar O.P.Jaiswal H.C. Satyarthi Nagendra Sharma Asad Zaidi Alok Joshi Durgesh Chowdhry Shaira Naim Shubham Tiwari Mamta Yadav Rafat Fatima Tazeen Kuldeep Chauhan Shavez Warsi Tasneem Ankita Misra Chandrasekhar Ajay Janjwar Nasira Sharma Vishnu Shukla Tanveer Akhtar Siddharth Kalhans Ram Kumar Ashish Awasthi SR Malik SN Sahu Chaman Lal Atul Sood Anurag Chaturvedi Imran Ahmad Srijanyogi Adiyog VR Raman Abha shukla

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