BATHINDA: The revolutionary circles of Punjab have accused the union government of conducting raids at the residences of many left leaning revolutionary writers, human rights activists across the country on Tuesday. The raids are learnt to have been conducted to make investigations on persons who had taken part in meetings before caste based violence had erupted at Bhima Koregaon near Pune in Maharashtra in January 2018. The raids are learnt to have been conducted at Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad, Faridabad and Goa at places of activists Varvara Rao, Sudha Bhardwaj, Gautam Navlakha and more.

Operation green hunt virodhi front activists professor Parminder Singh and AK Maleri said that these raids are like undeclared emergency on the right of expression. The NDA government does not want anybody to raise their voice against its actions and ideology and it wants to crush any such voice which is intolerable in free India”. Punjab lok sabhyachark manch convener Amolak Singh said that police is learnt to have detained some of the activists just to stop them from raising voice for justice. This type of behaviour at the hands of authorities could never be accepted and we will oppose it vehemently by holding protests and burning effigies of union government.

