A week before Independence Day, on August 8, a mob of 5000 men led by BJP’s former Delhi spokesperson Ashwini Upadhyay gathered at Parliament Street in India’s national capital Delhi in what they called a “Wake India” event, and raised slogans declaring “When Muslims are slaughtered they will cry out the name of (Hindu god) Ram.” A flyer was distributed by organisers of the gathering asking people to call them if they are interested in the “Annihilation of Islam” The gathering did not have permission from Delhi Police, and yet the police did not disperse, nor deta