Sandeep Sahu - Gagging dissent? Two FIRs filed against Gandhi Peace Foundation chief Kumar Prashant
NB: The Sangh wants to criminalise historical interpretations that contradict their view of history. Have they not been spreading their version of history, demonising Gandhi and Nehru for decades? In 2014, did their mouthpiece Kesari not publish the view that Godse should have murdered Nehru? Their wish to prosecute Kumar Prashant, an outstanding activist for peace and communal harmony, shows that they are bent upon imposing ideological conformity upon Indian society. Madhu Limaye had warned us about them decades ago. Let there be an open debate on the doings of the RSS. What will the courts decide? That the RSS is the repository of historical truth? DS
Two FIRs have been lodged in two different police stations in Odisha over the last two days accusing Gandhi Peace Foundation (GPF) chief Kumar Prashant of spreading falsehoods about the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and ‘conspiring against the nation’ and calling for action against the eminent Gandhian thinker.
Citing media reports on the three-day ‘Gandhi Katha’ Prashant addressed in Bhubaneswar from August 16 to 18, both the FIRs charged the Gandhian thinker with spreading falsehoods about the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and inciting the people of Jammu & Kashmir. The first of the two FIRs was lodged at the Adarsh police station in Phulbani, the headquarters of the communally sensitive Kandhamal district, on Monday while the second was registered at the Lalbag police station the following day.
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1948: Assassination of Gandhi
कुमार प्रशांत - तो राष्ट्रीय स्वंयसेवक संघ ने एक बार फिर गांधी से दो-दो हाथ करने का मन बनाया है // Bharat Bhushan: BJP icon S P Mookerjee complicit in raising funds for defending Gandhi's assassins
Two FIRs have been lodged in two different police stations in Odisha over the last two days accusing Gandhi Peace Foundation (GPF) chief Kumar Prashant of spreading falsehoods about the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and ‘conspiring against the nation’ and calling for action against the eminent Gandhian thinker.
Citing media reports on the three-day ‘Gandhi Katha’ Prashant addressed in Bhubaneswar from August 16 to 18, both the FIRs charged the Gandhian thinker with spreading falsehoods about the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and inciting the people of Jammu & Kashmir. The first of the two FIRs was lodged at the Adarsh police station in Phulbani, the headquarters of the communally sensitive Kandhamal district, on Monday while the second was registered at the Lalbag police station the following day.
Addressing the ‘Gandhi
Katha’ at the invitation of the organising committee set up by the Odisha
government for the sesquicentennial celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth,
Kumar Prashant had said the RSS played no role in India’s freedom struggle.
Vinayak Damodar (‘Veer’) Savarkar actually collaborated with the British to get
out of the Cellular jail in Andaman, he had said. On abrogation of Article 370,
the Gandhian thinker had said it was an ‘undemocratic’ measure taken without
taking the people of the trouble-torn state into confidence. He also likened
the move to what Mohammed Ali Jinnah did to partition the country.
“Gandhi Peace
Foundation chief Kumar Prashant has sown the seeds of discord by denigrating
‘Veer Savarkar’ whose portrait adorns the Central Hall of Parliament and
describing Udham Singh, who laid down his life for the country, as a
‘criminal’,” the identical FIRs said. The FIR in Phulbani was signed by
Bhagaban Mohaty, advocate while the one in Cuttack was signed by
Biswarajan Swain, advocate... read more:
see also
1948: Assassination of Gandhi
कुमार प्रशांत - तो राष्ट्रीय स्वंयसेवक संघ ने एक बार फिर गांधी से दो-दो हाथ करने का मन बनाया है // Bharat Bhushan: BJP icon S P Mookerjee complicit in raising funds for defending Gandhi's assassins
