Last Wednesday, a court in Sasaram (Bihar) sentenced four suspected Maoists to life imprisonment for the murder of a civil servant 15 years ago. The one who was presented as one of their accomplice bail him ten years of detention. Sanjay Singh was shot dead by alleged Maoists in the village of Rehal in the Rohtas district of Bihar on 15 February 2002. Nirala Yadav, Ram Bachan Yadav, Lalan Singh Kharawar and Nitish Yadav were sentenced to life imprisonment, To a fine of 200,000 rupees (2700 euros) each. Sudama Oraon was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 rupees (6700 euros). One of the convicts’ lawyers has already announced that they will appeal this decision.
Two of the convicts at the exit of the court of SasaramTwo of the condemned ones at the exit of the court of Sasaram
In this case, the number of convicted persons in this case amounted to seven. In 2004, two other alleged Maoists were sentenced to life imprisonment for killing the official. Four others are still being prosecuted and detained pending trial. Ten of the 21 persons identified by the authorities as part of their investigation are still being sought.
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The latest phase of fascistization of India has now reached Bengal – the birthplace of India’s democratic movement and, paradoxically, also a fertile ground for religious disharmony, where historically millions converted to Islam (via Buddhism) to escape from Hindu caste oppression.
The anti-partition movement in British Bengal in 1905 gave birth to Hindu and Muslim nationalism, spreading all over British India, frustrating the incipient second democratic revolution of India. The first nascent democratic revolution was the Young Bengal movement led by eighteen year old Henry Derozio from around 1825 onwards; he died at the age of twenty-two. The movement was inspired by the ideas of French Revolution and economic philosopy of Adam Smith and David Ricardo. The movement was nipped in the bud.
The infamous Calcutta riots of 1946, killing probably 8000 people, would have embarrased Hitler. The dominant feudal classes together with the new bourgeois forces from both religious communities succeeded to put the most oppressed peoples against one another. The following quote describes the participants in the riots: “Anatomy of the crowd : Predominance of up-countrymen amongst the 1946 rioting crowd represented a broad pattern of similarity with Calcutta’s preceding communal outbreaks. Amongst the Muslims the butchers, factory workers, masons, dock workers and other inhabitants of slums of central Calcutta were most active. Muslim students, including females, joined the 16th August rally. Within the Hindus the volatile section included milkmen, sweepers, rickshaw pullers, darwans (guards) of government offices and business establishments and personal retainers of the city’s prominent persons. There were communal skirmishes taken place before. But, in the history of Calcutta’s communal riots the Bengalis – Hindus and Muslims – joined the rioting crowd for the first time in 1946. Most pre-eminent in participation were potters, scavengers, petty shopkeepers, goldsmiths and Kalwars (artisans dealing with scrap metals), students and other middle-class groups.
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The Bilaspur High Court on Friday granted bail to seven activists from Telangana, who were arrested by the Chhattisgarh police in December last year for allegedly possessing banned currency notes and Maoist literature.
The seven activists of the Telangana Democratic Front (TDF) were travelling to Sukma district as part of a fact-finding team to inquire into the atrocities on tribals, when they were arrested and charged under the draconian Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act.
Justice Gautam Bhadudi granted bail to all the TDF activists and asked them to furnish a surety of ₹25,000 each. The court said the applicants had been in jail for more than six months and charges against them have been framed. ʹLooking at the period of detention undergone by the applicants as against the charges framed against them, and taking into consideration the entire situation, this court is inclined to allow this bail application,ʹ read the order.
The activists are Andhra Pradesh High Court lawyer Bhalla Ravindranath, advocate Chikkudu Prabhakar, independent journalist Durga Prasad, social activist Duddu Prabhakar, student leader Rajendra Prasad, and student activists Nazeer and Ramananda Lakshmi.
The Sukma police had claimed to have arrested the activists in Dharmapenta village, but the activists said they were arrested by the Telangana police in Dummugudem village and handed over to the Chhattisgarh police.
The activists had also denied that they were carrying any banned notes or Maoist literature.
The lower court had rejected the bail plea of these activists and even the Bilaspur High Court had turned down their bail application in March. ʹThis was their second bail application. They are currently in the Sukma district jail and they may be released on Saturday evening once all the formalities are complete,ʹ said advocate Kishor Narayan of Human Rights Law Network, who appeared for the activists along with advocate Viren Pande.
So Modi is visiting a land where the RSS dream has come to fruition. It is not surprising that both Modi and Netanyahu are calling each other brothers and embracing each other repeatedly.
Zionism is a Jewish supremacist ideology. It came into existence through the existential anxiety of the Jews living in Europe. A secular Austrian-Jewish journalist, Theodor Herzl, was the first to turn rumblings of Jewish nationalism into an international movement around 1896. Aided by the prevailing political climate in Europe, the Zionist movement encouraged Jews to migrate to the British domain of Palestine and used their money power, political power and military power to establish a nation called Israel in Palestine, ethnic cleansing 700,000 original dwellers of the land. This project continued with the 1967 Six Day War and still continues with the settlement of hundreds of thousands of Israeli Jews in the occupied land in clear violation of international laws and U.N resolutions. Israel is a colonial, rogue, apartheid state. It is this rogue nation that India is embracing.
In the same way, RSS was launched by some Nagpur Brahmans due to the existential anxiety created by the growing freedom movement and to ensure the hegemony of the upper castes when India got freedom from the British. The collusion of RSS with the British and Savarkar’s mercy petitions are legends that RSS wants the nation to forget. Some history will come back to haunt them forever. RSS agenda was to make India a Hindu Rashtra with Manusmriti (Manu’s Code) as the underlying principle when the British left India. When they found that Mahatma Gandhi stood in their way, their henchman Nathuram Godse pointed his gun at him and gunned him down. When Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, as RSS claimed, after 1000 years of foreign domination, they found it an opportune moment to make their dream a reality. The mob violence, lynchings, violation of food rights, human rights, livelihood rights are part of this larger plan.
In Israel RSS has found a natural ally and a role model who put their grand vision to fruition. In Modi’s embrace of Netanyahu we see the marriage of two evil ideologies, Hindutva and Zionism. Israel with its tried and tested military technologies and tactics to subdue the freedom strugglers of Palestine, will be ever ready to pass on their know how to Modi. Muslims, dalits and other minority groups in India, beware of this deadly embrace.
Binu Mathew is the editor of www.countercurrents.org. He can be reached at editor@countercurrents.org
