Jawaharlal Nehru had expressed relief after security forces killed 400 Hindu peasants protesting against Noakhali massacre in 1946, said it balances mob violence
In 1982, then PM Pierre Trudeau sheilded Khalistani terrorist Talwinder Singh Parmar who later planned the bombing Indian aircraft Kanishka killing 329 people out of which 268 were Canadian citizens.
The Dravida Kazagham, under Periyar's leadership, had called for the killing of Brahmins and the destruction of their residential properties on November 3, 1957.
In September 1951, Nehru met SA Ayer following which on 23rd September 1951 he instructed the Indian Embassy in Tokyo to take Netaji's treasure from Ramamurti and keep it in the Mission until further instructions.
This documentation of the less-known facts about direct action day and the way it still persists is an attempt to keep the sufferers informed about the causes and effects of the wounds they have sustained; because it is the only way they shall find a way to not let it happen ever again.
Thoughts similar to the declared and undeclared agenda of the Direct Action Day are expressed by certain Muslim leaders and organizations in contemporary India. Sharjeel Imam and Popular Front of India are prime examples.