Maoists come out in support of JNUSU president, want ‘innocent’ Kanhaiya freed
Kanhaiya Kumar, who was recently
arrested on sedition charges in connection with an event held at the
varsity to commemorate the death of Afzal Guru. In a press statement
released by the western sub-zonal bureau of the Communist Party of India
(Maoist), the organisation demanded the release of “innocent” Kumar.
The release, which police sources claimed had first been circulated
among the locals of Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district before being
apprehended by the police, also went on to criticise the Narendra Modi
government.
“If it is sedition to take the name of Afzal Guru, the heartbeats of
the 124 crore Indians will also be seditious,” the release stated.
Kanhaiya’s arrest has been called a conspiracy by the “orthodox Hindu
Fascists”. The release claimed that Kumar’s arrest was an attack on
“progressive, secular and pro-people thinking and ideologies”. “The
eroding image of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Akhil Vidyarthi
Parishad could not be digested by the blind nationalist forces which is
why they Kanhaiya Kumar was targeted in a planned manner and was sent
to jail on false charges of sedition,” the statement read. The banned
Maoist outfit called for “an end to the anti-democratic Brahmanical
Hinduism of the Modi government” and demanded that “people not be forced
to become Hindus”, apart from deprecating the “saffronisation of the
society” and the “communalisation: of the country. The Delhi High Court
would be pronouncing a decision in the matter relating to the bail plea
of Kumar on Wednesday. Justice Pratibha Rani had reserved the order on
Monday. The Delhi Police had opposed Kumar’s bail plea, but the Delhi
government had been in favour of bail being granted to the student leade
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