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Modi Regime Turning Fascist or A Farce? Sedition Charges Slapped On Rahul Gandhi,
Kejriwal, Yechury, D. Raja And Others

By Countercurrents.org

29 February, 2016
Countercurrents.org

The Narendra Modi regime fast turning into fascist or a farce! Only time will tell which direction India is heading . In the latest incident a case of sedition has been registered in Hyderabad against Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, CPM General Secretary Sitaram Yechury,CPI leader D Raja and five others in connection with the JNU row. Others named in the First Information Report include Congress leaders Anand Sharma and Ajay Maken, JD(U) Spokesperson KC Tyagi, JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and JNU research scholar Umar Khalid. Kanhaiya and Khalid, who have earlier been arrested in Delhi on sedition charge, have also been booked again on the same charge.

A Hyderabad lawyer, Janardhan Goud filed a complaint in court after which a case was registered in the Saroornagar police station under the Cyberabad police.

Sedition is alleged for visiting the JNU campus on February 13 to support and express solidarity to the students who had participated in event against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. The complaint calls JNU a “hub of anti-national activity” and claims that the politicians are “violating the constitution by supporting the anti-nationals”. In his petition, Goud said Rahul and other leaders, despite being aware that Delhi Police had registered a case against Kanhaiya on charge of sedition had visited JNU campus and knowingly supported them and hence it "amounted to sedition".

Mr Goud had filed a complaint in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate on Thursday, seeking its direction to police for registration of a case against Kanhaiya and Khalid for allegedly raising anti-India and pro-Afzal Guru slogans on JNU campus and others. The XI Metropolitan Magistrate Court of L B Nagar ordered the cases to be filed on a petition by advocate S Janardhan Goud, who stated that he was disturbed by the video footage shown on Times Now and Zee News in which he heard students chanting anti-India slogans. He said "I want citizens all over the country to file such FIRs against them."

Reacting to the case against Rahul Gandhi, the Congress said it wouldn’t stop it from remaining “the torch-bearer against oppression and suppression” by the BJP. “Sadly, the BJP and its allies want to suppress every voice that speaks against their repressive anti-Dalit and anti-poor policies. From Rohith Vemula to Rahul Gandhi, everyone who raises an opinion against suppressing of opinion by the Modi government is branded anti-national,” chief party spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said.

Yechury said the case had to have the government’s approval. “This is a political move by the RSS-BJP. This could not have happened without the government’s sanction. The matter will be taken up politically and legally,” the CPM leader said.

JD(U) leader Tyagi said the charge reminded him of “pre-Emergency days”. “Along with Jayaprakash Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia, Chaudhary Charan Singh, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, we have faced all these charges. This is a government with new ideology and it reminds me of pre-Emergency days,” he said. The issue would definitely be raised in Parliament, Tyagi added. “We will fight it inside and outside Parliament.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be asked for “the definition of national and anti-national”.

It seems that the Sangh Parivar has let loose its fringe elements to brand anyone who doesn't agree with its ideology as antinationals, framing fabricated cases, beating them up and even publicly lynching. The eerie silence of the central government is deafening and frightening.



 



 

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