[Marxistindia] Stop This Targeting Of Dissenters

[news from the cpi(m)]

January 17, 2019

 

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

Stop This Targeting Of Dissenters 

 

The vicious targeting by the Modi government and BJP state governments of
intellectuals and activists, who support the cause of Dalit and oppressed
communities, is intensifying. This is confirmed by the treatment being meted
out to noted intellectual Anand Teltumbde in the Bhima Koregaon case.
Teltumbde has been falsely charged in this case when he was not even present
at the event. Teltumbde is a senior Professor and author of many critically
acclaimed books.

Such attacks on those critical of its policies/activities and dissenting
voices has happened earlier under the calumnious category of "Urban Naxals".
Respected octogenarian intellectual of Assam, Hiren Gogoi along with others
have been booked on charges of sedition for opposing the Citizenship
Amendment Bill. 

The CPI(M) condemns such harassment of public intellectuals and activists,
the latest being Anand Teltumbde and demands that the false case against him
be withdrawn. 

 

 

 

(Hari Singh Kang)

For Central Committee Office

 

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