Video: Maoist Plot: Missing Evidence?
en | 26:24 min | 2018
NDTV / By NDTV
We examine the 5,000-page charge sheet filed against so-called ‘Urban Naxals’ to find more questions than answers.
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‘Urban naxal is something of an oxymoron’
Frontline / By Ziya Us Salam
Interview with Professor Romila Thapar.
The term “urban naxal” was once used during peasant protests against the state. Today, it is used almost as a slur on those who ask uncomfortable questions of the state. The same fate meets those authors and poets who refuse to sing hosannas to state power.
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Trade unionists branded as ‘Urban Naxals’, arrested under UAPA shows State repression of labour activists has peaked
The Leaflet / By B Sivaraman
The NDA government in the Centre and the Maharashtra government are trampling upon the entire gamut of rights and not only human rights as understood in the conventional manner. Labour rights, women’s rights and Adivasi rights all are turning into human rights issues because of repression.
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World body calls Urban Naxals rights’ defenders
The Pioneer / By Rajesh Kumar
Taking note of arrest of six prominent human rights defenders and lawyers — branded “Urban Naxals” — the Special Rapporteurs of Human Rights Council (HRC) has written to Permanent Mission of India (PMI) in Geneva seeking information about Surendra Gadling, Rona Wilson, Shoma Sen, Sudha Bhardwaj, Mahesh Raut and Sudhir Dhawale.
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Chhattisgarh: Why does Congress support ‘urban Maoists’ and then speak against Naxalism, asks Modi
Scroll.in /By Scroll Staff
… “The ‘urban Maoists’ who live in air-conditioned homes in the cities, look clean and whose children study abroad, remote-control the adivasi children in the Naxal-dominated areas,” Modi said. “I want to ask the Congress why it supports the ‘urban Maoists’ when the government takes action against them and come to Bastar and speak against Naxalism,” he said.
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Demonetisation broke Maoists’ backbone, exposed ‘urban Naxals’, says BJP think tank’s study
Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff
The Narendra Modi government’s decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes in November 2016 “broke the backbone of left-wing extremists”, said a report published by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s think tank, the Public Policy Research Centre. The study titled “Demonetisation: Impact on Combating Naxalism” was released on Wednesday. November 8 marks the second anniversary of the note ban exercise.
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McCarthyism in Modi’s India
JACOBIN / By Anand Teltumbde
Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party are carrying out an audacious campaign to arrest left activists and silence dissent in India. The country is on a path toward fascism.
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Interview: Why are the BJP and RSS (and the Indian state) obsessed by ‘Urban Naxals’?
Scroll.in / By Ajaz Ashraf
Ajay Gudavarthy explains why given the many forms of political violence in India, it is Maoists who are seen as the biggest threat to democracy.
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Discipline, Dissent and ‘Urban Naxals’
VIKALP / By Satyaki Roy
One of the major features of the current regime is that it insinuates a concerted process of criminalization, assassination and intimidation as an evolving architecture of punishment not being backed by any judicial probe.
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How the police can fabricate evidence to suggest that anyone is an ‘urban Maoist’?
Scroll.in / By Anand Teltumbde
The writer and management professor says that the authorities are planting fake evidence on computers so that they can jail dissidents.
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