‘Azadi’ slogans were raised at the Delhi Queer pride parade held in the national capital yesterday.
https://twitter.com/insenroy/status/1198581917878145024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
In a video clip shared by journalist Bodhisattva Sen Roy, one can hear the chants of ‘Kashmir maangey azadi’, ‘tum police bulao, tum goli chalao, lathi maaro, tum goli chalao… azadi’.
Read: Dear fellow LGBTQ members, this was a hate parade, not a pride march
Placards which read ‘Bharat Mata wants a girlfriend’ were also spotted at the Delhi Queer Pride parade.
https://twitter.com/KidKweer/status/1198603047166808066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
And some more political slogans targeting the Prime Minister.
https://twitter.com/engenderedpod/status/1198547511390199808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Apparently, mocking the Prime Minister during gay pride parade is a ‘perfect response’.
https://twitter.com/insenroy/status/1198563503809843206?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
And of course, ‘saffron’ is colour of hate.
https://twitter.com/prerna_shree/status/1198650352234459138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/emocancerian/status/1198623204937326592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
This is not a new phenomena. Every time it is the same rhetoric. Which is ironic since the historic judgement where the Supreme Court on Sept 6th 2018 decriminalised homosexuality by partially striking down the colonial era provisions of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code during the Narendra Modi-led NDA government. Had BJP government opposed the case in the Supreme Court as earlier governments had been doing, the ruling would have never come.