*All India Secular Forum* *Annual Convention 2014 at Varanasi March 23-24, 2014*
*Dear Friends* We are passing through difficult times. The attack on secular democratic values is getting fiercer by the day. Communal violence is unabated and places in UP, more particularly around Muzzafarnagar, have witnessed massive violence. In Bihar also, after the withdrawal of the BJP from the coalition Government, the number of incidents of communal violence has gone up. Even acts of terrorism have been reported. All over the country, the communal forces are trying to grab power by taking advantage of communal polarisation and making use of false propaganda of development of Gujarat. The communal forces, through clever use of media, are hiding their sharp claws behind the veil of mythical development. These are challenging times and we need to strategise our work around these issues. While the promotion of secular values and ethos are an urgent need, we also have to look at short term and long term goals of secular democratic movement. It is at this juncture that we plan to hold the National convention of All Indian secular forum in Varanasi on March 23-24, 2014. All India Secular forum has been striving to bring together activists from different walks of life in different parts of the country to carry on the work to strengthen the values of our Constitution, the values of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, to promote the values of freedom movement and to work for harmony and pluralism. You are most cordially invited to attend the forthcoming meeting. The agenda of the meeting will be a. Review of our work during the last one year. b. Need for urgent short-term measures in the light of forthcoming elections. c. Making our awareness programs more broad based d. Planning for resource material for our activists. Details of Programme Dates of convention : March 23-24, 2014 (Programme will begin at 10:00 a.m.) Place of convention : Navsadhna, Tarna (Varanasi-Jaunpur Road), Varanasi (U.P.) We are not able to provide for the travel, but keeping in mind the importance of the meeting, we are sure you will make it to the meeting. We will be able to provide modest accommodation and local hospitality. In Solidarity L.S. Herdenia (National Convener) Ram Puniyani, Irfan Engineer Dr. Mohd. Arif Mob. 09425301582 Mob. 09322254043 Mob. 09869462833 Mob. 0941527041 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
