Summary:
The police are only focussing on KKM members because people in power want to project that the entire Elgaar Parishad has Naxal links… even the cases against KKM are false…”. The Modi and Fadnavis governments are suppressing free and dissenting voices through such cases and actions.”Akash Sable, another member of the Elgaar Parishad organising committee, said, “Members from 260 organisations had come to together for the Elgaar Parishad. They have also seized songs written by us, manuscripts of street plays and notes of our Shahiri Jalsa programmes,” said Gaichor. A similar case was also registered against Dalit MLA from Gujarat, Jignesh Mevani, and JNU student leader Umar Khalid over their speeches at Elgaar Parishad. These are clearly the action of a police machinery working under political pressure..