The district unit of Komu Sauharda Vedike staged a protest in front of the Clock Tower here on Friday, against Modi-led BJP government at Centre for curbing civil rights.
Speaking on the occasion, district unit of Komu Sauhrada Vedike Vice President Phanniraj said Modi government is the protector of assassins who created havoc during the Gujarat riots.
He said government is treating civil rights activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad badly and inhumanly. She has been labeled anti-nationalist element and the government is framing fake charges against her.
Phanniraj alleged Modi-led Central government was framing her as she is responsible to bring at least 57 cases concerning Gujarat riots into the court and at present she is fighting for 27 cases in the Supreme Court.
Alleging that the encounter culture is being encouraged by Modi government, he said Modi government has given clean chit to five top ranking police officials and they were also given bail for gruesome crime. He said irony is that two of them are reconstituted into service.
Condemning Modi government’s attitude for initiating CBI inquiry into the Setalvad case, he said Teesta is being punished for being transparent in maintaining her accounts.
Harnessing terror
Asserting that the BJP government is massacring civilian rights, the social activist said the government is harnessing the terror in different form. He ridiculed that even after people receiving life imprisonment in Supreme Court, they are offered bail, referring to Maya Kodnani, the BJP MLA, who was involved in Gujrat riots.
Komu Sauhrada Vedike district president G Rajashekar alleged that the government is also behaving violent in case of Delhi University English Professor G N Saibaba.
He is granted temporary bail for three months to undergo medical treatment for multiple ailments including for a degenerative spine disease. He was arrested by Maharashtra police last year for alleged Maoist links and jailed in the Nagpur Central Prison.
He said that how a person with 90 percent disability would be able establish of Maoist links, he ridiculed.
He also said Hemanth Karkare is massacred by the RSS activists in Mumbai and not by Islamic fundamentalists as pictured by the BJP government, he added.