On 6th December 2002, Delhi Committee of the CPI(ML)-New Democracy organized a Dharna at Jantar Mantar from 11.30 a.m. onwards. Around 200 people, mostly drawn from the working class, and also several progressive individuals participated. The Dharna was organized to highlight three demands. Firstly, the protesters demanded that the UP Govt. should issue a corrected notification to rejuvenate the Special Court at Lucknow. Starting the case at another special court at Rai Barali as suggested by Mayawati Govt. and decreed by the Supreme Court, virtually amounts to killing the case and bailing out LK Advani and his Hindutva-ranting hordes. Secondly, as several speakers pointed out, 10 years ago, Narasimha Rao Govt. had assured the shell shocked nation that the Babri Masjid would be rebuilt at the site. Today of course the demand has been virtually discarded as the Hindutva brigade has not only pushed the agenda to one of building a Ram Mandir, but also actually conducted a state sponsored Shila Pujan. Democratic and progressive forces have also fallen into the trap of discarding the demand with the passage of time. Thus the second demand raised was that the Babri Masjid, a monument of our common heritage, must be restored at the same site.

The third demand raised by the Dharna was for punishment to the guilty of the Gujarat genocide of Muslims, including Narendra Modi, guilty police officers and administrators. Especially, punishment should be immediately meted out to those guilty of spearheading bestial sexual crimes against Muslim women in Gujarat, all of whom are roaming free as the police have consistently refrained from registering FIRs. However the names and crimes have been fairly will listed by several organizations.

Among those who addressed the Dharna were Shri Anil Chamadiya (Journalist), Shri Jaspal Singh Siddhu (Journalist) Shri Pankaj Singh (Poet), Dr. N.K. Bhattacharya (Convenor, Janhastakshep) and leaders of the party, of IFTU, NBS and PMS. A memorandum addressed to the President was also submitted.