BJP Used 'Urban Naxals' For AAP, Modi Attacks Congress, And Now It Comes In PM's Gujarat Speeches
On Friday, the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court acquitted Saibaba (in picture) and five others, setting aside the life sentence awarded to them by a sessions court in Gadchiroli in 2017.
The Congress has said the acquittal of former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba in the Maoist links case proves that the 'Urban Naxal' tag is "totally bogus".
On Friday, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court acquitted Saibaba and five others while setting aside the life sentence awarded to them by a sessions court in Gadchiroli in 2017.
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Soon after, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh tweeted: "The acquittal of wheelchair-bound Professor GN Saibaba after five years in jail proves that the 'Urban Naxal' tag invented by the Prime Minister's brigade is completely bogus. …many others are still in completely unreasonable custody. Such a blatant strategy must be opposed. I wouldn't be surprised if the Prime Minister calls me an (Urban Naxal) too!”
The acquittal of Professor GN Saibaba, sitting in a wheelchair for 5 years, proves that the 'Urban Naxal' tag invented by the PM's brigade is completely bogus. Many others are still in wholly unreasonable detention. Such slander tactics should be opposed. I wouldn't be surprised if PM calls me too!
— jairam ramesh (@jairam_ramesh) October 14, 2022
The BJP has been using the term regularly since it first became popular after the high-profile arrests of activists in July and August 2018 in the Elgar Parishad case. Investigating the alleged links of the arrested activists to the violence that followed the Elgar Parishad incident at Bhima Koregaon in Pune, the police called them urban Naxals.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday raised the issue of 'Urban Naxals' after laying the foundation stone of the country's first bulk drug park in Gujarat's Bharuch district.
In what seemed like a veiled attack on the Aam Aadmi Party, which is fighting an aggressive fight for the Gujarat polls, Modi said: “Urban Naxals are trying to enter the state with new appearances. He has changed his costume. They are misleading our innocent and energetic youth to follow them... They are agents of foreign powers."
More than a month ago, while addressing a gathering in Kutch, the PM had similarly said: “There was a time when Gujarat was facing one crisis after another. While Gujarat was grappling with natural calamities... one after the other conspiracies were hatched to defame Gujarat in the country and the world and to block investments here.
Speaking right after the PM, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel explained what Modi meant. "...we must remember who were those people who kept Kutch from the Narmada waters for almost five decades. We all know who were those urban naxals who opposed the Narmada dam project... Those urban Medha Patkar was one of the Naxalites. We all know which political party these people belonged to."
The context seemed to be from AAP, which had fielded Patkar from Mumbai North East in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. He left the party in 2015.
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