National secular platform JAVAB launched in city

To run a national campaign for secularism, noted civil rights activists on Sunday launched a platform of activists, drawn from different organisations and called people to join it.
The forum has been named as Janvadi Vichar Andolan, Bharat (JAVAB).
The announcement of the formation of JAVAB was made at a press conference, held by prominent activists from all over the country in Ahmedabad on Sunday.
The group is led by noted social activist, Shabnam Hashmi, who said that a larger meeting of JAVAB would be held in Delhi in the last week of January for further deliberations.
“The twin agenda of JAVAB will be to counter communal forces in the forthcoming elections and advocating for a truly inclusive society, politics and economics the speakers said adding, JAVAB would  be guided by the sensibilities forged in our collective struggles for dignity of Dalits, the rights of Adivasis and other marginalised communities across the country,” said a press release issued by Hashmi.
“Activists, academicians, artists, writers and social workers have come together to form a national platform for secularism called Janvadi Vichar Andolan Bharat (JAVAB) to counter communal forces in the forthcoming elections and advocate a truly inclusive society,” a statement by JAVAB said here today.
Hashmi said that without aligning with any particular party, the platform would appeal to all secular forces to see that anti-communal vote does not splinter.