Kozhikode: India is turning out to be a tumultuous 'Ravanrajya' and not the exemplar 'Ramrajya', Kafeel Khan, the doctor implicated by the UP government in the August 2017 infant deaths case, has said. (At least 90 children died at the government-run BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur, UP, on the fateful day).
Dr Khan was addressing a gathering at the Farook College, Kozhikode, on Monday.
He said he would organise a Sradhanjali, a protest in which the parent of the victims would also take part, to mark the first anniversary of the tragedy. They would also submit a memorandum to the government seeking compensation.
"The kin of the children are denied justice even a year after the tragedy. The government should admit that they committed a mistake. They should say there was shortage of oxygen. I am not scared. I am going on a tour to spread awareness about what the regime is doing in the name of caste, religion; thereby spreading hatred and violence," he said.
Without taking names, he said he wanted to expose the violence of the Modi-Yogi governments. "I don't want to join any political party. Many have approached me with offers. If I join a party, I will have to act and speak as per their agenda," he said.
He said publishers had him to write a book on his experiences in jail. (Dr Khan was remanded and sent to prison after the infant deaths). "I sent my first letter from jail by putting it inside my baby daughter's diaper. I have scribbled nearly 600 pages of my hardships inside the jail. I don't have time to compile it now. I have told the publishers to take it, make sense of it and get it published," Dr Khan said.
Dr Khan became the darling of social media after he volunteered to work in Kozhikode and Malappuram districts of Kerala during the recent Nipah outbreak. The disease had claimed many lives in the state. The ruling Left Democratic Front readily welcomed him and sent him two air tickets. But the state withdrew the invite since the Gorakhpur case was sub judice.
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