St Xavier’s College Cancels Stan Swamy Lecture After ABVP Protest
Free Press Journal / by S Balakrishnan
The lecture, organised by the college’s department of inter-religious studies, was to have been delivered by Fr Prem Xalxo on “Migration for Livelihood: Hope amidst miseries.”
St Xavier’s College has cancelled its annual Stan Swamy Memorial Lecture scheduled for August 9 pm following protest from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sangh (ABVP), an RSS affiliated. …
The ABVP told the college principal in a strongly worded letter that Fr Stanley was a prime accused in the Bhima Koregaon criminal case and was arrested under UAPA, an anti-terrorist law. Prashant Mali, ABVP secretary, Mumbai, alleged in the letter that Fr Stanley was linked to the CPI (Maoist).
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▪ Video: Testimony of Stan Swamy, two days before his arrest on 8 October 2020.
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▪ Bhima Koregaon: The man who lodged FIR against Mevani and Khalid is distancing himself from ABVP (Scroll.in / Sep 2018)