Hathras and SSR: A tale of two protests

The rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman by four upper caste men in Uttar Pradesh’s #Hathras brought more than a thousand protesters to Delhi’s #JantarMantar on October 2. The gathering, rich with posters and placards, raised slogans against caste-based sexual violence and the poor conduct of the state government under Chief Minister Ajay Bisht, popularly known as Yogi Adityanath. “Every time Yogi is scared, he puts the police ahead,” cried one protester.

Actor Swara Bhaskar, activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad also joined the protest.

In one corner of Jantar Mantar, another protest brewed. Around 40 people came together under the banner of #JusticeForSSR, demanding a fair probe into the death of the late actor Sushant Singh Rajput. “Our protest is planned,” boasted one of them, “but their protest [for the Hathras victim] was finalised only after Rahul Gandhi said, ‘Come, beat me’ as he was marching to Hathras.”

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