Muslim League

The IUML, which Congress leader Rahul Gandhi once boasted of as a 'secular party', has described itself as "a political entity dedicated to safeguarding Muslim rights" in its petition filed before the Supreme Court.

The overall objective of this calculated falsehood is to convey that Muslims are 'overwhelmingly patriotic' and that Hindus must somehow be grateful to them for choosing India over Pakistan.

Incidentally, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi had back in 2001, taken a holy dip at the Kumbh Mela in 2001, when her Indianness was rightly being questioned, however, years after a long political career, Gandhi was neither seen at the 2007 Kumbh nor at the once-in-a-century Mahakumbh 2025.

The Muslim League quickly transitioned from demanding a separate electorate for Muslims to asking for a separate country.

PM Modi emphasised that he waited for 10 days for the media to point out the “evils” of the Congress manifesto. He added that the media should have analysed it in an unbiased manner rather than repeating what Congress presented before them. 

One of the eyewitnesses to the 1980 Moradabad Riots, asserted that the violence was an obvious consequence of the vote bank and Muslim appeasement politics the then Congress government, both in the state and the centre, had been practising

Dayanand Gupta, one of the eyewitnesses of the 1980 Moradabad Riots, testified how during the violence the Muslim mob launched an unprovoked attack on the police officials and the members of the Valmiki Dalit community

The UP government recently tabled the inquiry report into the 1980 Moradabad riots that killed at least 83 people and left 112 others injured which revealed that Muslim League leaders had orchestrated the riots

This documentation of the less-known facts about direct action day and the way it still persists is an attempt to keep the sufferers informed about the causes and effects of the wounds they have sustained; because it is the only way they shall find a way to not let it happen ever again.

Thoughts similar to the declared and undeclared agenda of the Direct Action Day are expressed by certain Muslim leaders and organizations in contemporary India. Sharjeel Imam and Popular Front of India are prime examples.