Mumbai: Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan has given his assent to the anti black magic and superstition ordinance. The move is likely to relieve preassure from the Maharashtra government which has been under severe criticism for the delay in the Bill.
The state government on Wednesday had cleared a proposal to promulgate an ordinance to check black magic and inhuman religious rituals. On August 20, Narendra Dabholkar, who had been leading a campaign against superstition, was shot dead while he was on a morning walk near the Omkareshwar temple in Pune. Social activists have been demanding the government must act and find out Dabholkar's killers at the earliest. Over a hundred activist on Tuesday gathered at Shivaji Mandir in Dadar to protest the brutal killing of Dabholkar.
Dabholkar is the 9th to have lost his life since 2010. Satish Shetty, who exposed land scams in Pune, was killed in January, 2010. RTI activist Ramdas Ghadegaokar was killed in Nanded in August, 2010 after he exposed irregularities in the Public Distribution System. At least 4 other activists have also been assaulted in the last three years.
Dabholkar was at the forefront of a campaign to persuade the Maharashtra government to pass an anti-superstition and black magic bill. He spearheaded the "Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti" (anti-superstition movement) to change social mindset and inculcate scientific temper.
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