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Discussion at Talk:Hindutva

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Theres is a discussion at Talk:Hindutva#Classifying Hindutva as a far-right ideology which may be of interest to members of this project EarthDude (wanna talk?) 08:20, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Shriram Lagoo#Requested move 5 July 2025

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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Shriram Lagoo#Requested move 5 July 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPathtalk 11:03, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Secular Democratic Alliance#Requested move 12 July 2025

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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Secular Democratic Alliance#Requested move 12 July 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPathtalk 11:28, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Ankita Bhakat

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Ankita Bhakat has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. IAWW (talk) 01:32, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Kolkata Metro

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Kolkata Metro has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 05:05, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1984 anti-Sikh riots

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There appears to have been a recent effort at this article to seriously distort the actual perpetrators of the violence. The violence as is well known was mainly perpetratred by leaders and supporters of the Indian National Congress. It appears members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party were charged in one FIR in Delhi. On the basis of this these have been added to the infobox. An entire section has been also been created for them (most of which is unrelated to the violence). These are the citations used to support these additions to the infobox.

The Legacy of Militancy in Punjab by Inderjit Singh Jaijee and Dona Suri (SAGE Publishing, 2019):

In 1991, the Congress took power at the Centre again under P. V. Narasimha Rao. Never again does the Congress appoint any commission, committee or SIT to review anything about the November 1984 riots. Between 1956 and 1993, Delhi was a Union Territory without a Legislative Assembly. The BJP swept the election to the 1993 Delhi Assembly. It is not true that BJP workers remained entirely innocent during the riots. The names of 49 of them figured in FIRs.[21] Nevertheless, Madan Lal Khurana, the new Chief Minister of Delhi, not only appointed the Narula Committee to go into riot cases but also personally fought with the Central Government to get affidavits from the Misra Commission released so that action on them could be taken. A year later (1994), a Delhi trial court had again initiated proceedings against Sajjan Kumar and 12 others.
[21] 14 FIRs (arson, rioting, attempt to murder and dacoity) naming 49 BJP and RSS workers. Some of the prominent Delhi BJP and RSS workers against whom cases have been registered are Pritam Singh, Ram Kumar Jain, Ram Chander Gupta, Rattan Lal, Gian Lal Jain, Chander Sain, Pradeep Kumar Jain, Hans Raj Gupta, Babu Lal, Ved Mahipal Sharma, Padam Kumar Jain and Suresh Chand Jain. The largest FIR, 446/93 dated August 1993, registered in connection with the 1984 riots in which 17 persons have been named. Most of the 14 FIRs lodged against the BJP and RSS workers have been registered at the Sriniwaspuri Police Station in South Delhi. The cases are from areas such as Hari Nagar, Ashram, Sunlight Colony and Bhagwan Nagar. One of the accused, Ram Kumar Jain, named in FIR no 315/92 dated June 18 1992, was the election agent of the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee when he contested the Lok Sabha polls in 1980.

'RSS was silent during the 1984 riots. At places, it was implicated in the violence' by Ajaz Ashraf (Scroll.in, 2015) in an interview with Gautam Navlakha:

Ashraf: The report Who are the Guilty? created the narrative of powerful Congress ministers fanning the 1984 riots against the Sikhs. It was a joint report of the Peoples Union for Democratic Rights and the People’s Union for Civil Liberties. ... Ashraf: Did you come across Sangh members pitching in at the relief camps? Navlakha: Our report also implicates RSS people in the riots at some places. Ashraf: Are you saying the RSS people were at the forefront of the riots? Navlakha: Let us not mix it up – the 1984 riots were carried out by the Congress. But at some places the RSS people did play a role. It doesn’t surprise me. Given that the Congress was stoking the Hindu sentiment, and trying to exploit it for its own end, it jived well with the RSS.

The report being referred to, Who Are The Guilty? by People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and the People's Union for Democratic Rights (1984), has only this to say about these parties:

We also heard of cases where even Sikhs close to the Congress (I) leaders were not spared. In Sajjan Kumar's house at Paschimpuri on November 6, we were introduced to an elderly Sikh gentlemen who claimed to be an old Congressman whose shop was burnt by miscreants. He said that he knew who the culprits were. When our team members asked him why he did not file a complaint with the police, he said he would do it at the right time. Mr. Sajjan Kumar's secretary drew us aside and dropped a hint that the RSS workers had been behind the arson. He however could not name any particular RSS leader or activist. ... OTHERS INVOLVED [BLOCK-3:] Mr. Ashwini, BJP worker

Neither the interview nor the FIR appear to justify an inclusion of these parties in the infobox for this massacre/pogrom (it can still be handled in the body). We can be wary of RSS/BJP/Hindutva at enwiki but still not get carried away by WP:UNDUE and WP:POVPUSH efforts. These changes to me appear to dilute the actual/major perpetrators of the violence and akin to the efforts at including the INC at the 2002 Gujarat violence infobox a while back, on the basis of peripheral involvement by some of its members ([1]) or the constant attempt by POV editors to insert India/Mukti Bahini in the infobox of Bangladesh genocide (on the basis that some Indian military/Bahini personnel were involved in civilian violence).

I wanted to address this at the Talk page but there have been no sincere efforts to address these serious NPOV issues there, and I bring it to the wider community. While this is an WP:NPOVN issue as well, I believe the project might be able to handle it better. Gotitbro (talk) 18:00, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]