Conspiracy around Bhima Koregaon incident: To silence dissent emerging from universities
This is the latest thread in conspiracy
theory that the police is weaving around the incident. We have
completely forgotten the origin of the case. It was the large-scale violence on
the participants, mostly Dalits at Bhima Koregaon near Pune, which warranted
investigation and action. But the alleged instigators and organisers of that
massive violence are roaming free. They seem to be shielded by the feeling of
honour that the prime minister has for at least one of them... Instead, the police
has turned the whole case on its head by “unearthing” a conspiracy to
assassinate the prime minister
My father called to inform me that a Delhi University professor has been raided in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case. I asked him if it was Hany Babu. Soon after, I started getting messages which proved my fears true. Why was this so predictable? Is it because Babu is involved in some conspiratorial activity to overthrow the state, to which I am privy? No, his involvement with the campaign in the defence of G N Saibaba is the reason I feared for his safety.
Saibaba, who has 95 per cent disability and is also a teacher at our university, is wasting away in Nagpur jail. He would have slipped out of our collective mindscape but for the dogged campaign led by Hany Babu. Saibaba has been labelled a Maoist and, therefore, in the statist common sense, he does not deserve to live. It needed some courage to be the voice of this campaign, given the viciousness with which the word Maoist is used in our public discourse.
You need not be a supporter of the Maoist politics to uphold the right of people to follow or practice it. Even the Supreme Court finds it legitimate and lawful if you are not involved in any violent act. Saibaba has been sentenced to life imprisonment...
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The Pune police has confiscated Babu’s computer and hard drive, in which his academic work is stored. Now, his social media account and other contacts are with the police. The police did not even have a search warrant... It is complete lawlessness from the keepers of the law
My father called to inform me that a Delhi University professor has been raided in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case. I asked him if it was Hany Babu. Soon after, I started getting messages which proved my fears true. Why was this so predictable? Is it because Babu is involved in some conspiratorial activity to overthrow the state, to which I am privy? No, his involvement with the campaign in the defence of G N Saibaba is the reason I feared for his safety.
Saibaba, who has 95 per cent disability and is also a teacher at our university, is wasting away in Nagpur jail. He would have slipped out of our collective mindscape but for the dogged campaign led by Hany Babu. Saibaba has been labelled a Maoist and, therefore, in the statist common sense, he does not deserve to live. It needed some courage to be the voice of this campaign, given the viciousness with which the word Maoist is used in our public discourse.
You need not be a supporter of the Maoist politics to uphold the right of people to follow or practice it. Even the Supreme Court finds it legitimate and lawful if you are not involved in any violent act. Saibaba has been sentenced to life imprisonment...
The Pune police has
confiscated Babu’s computer and hard drive...The credentials of Hany Babu, the teacher and scholar, are irrelevant for the
police. But we must not ignore what his peer like Ayesha Kidwai has to say
about the potential items on his hard drive: “Hany Babu has said
many controversial things as a linguist. He has claimed, contra Jayaseelan and
Amritavalli, that Malayalam has a past tense. That -unnu can occupy either a
lower or higher position in the functional architecture of the Malayalam
clause, and that the Malayalam cleft does not have an existential
presupposition. He also split the CP in his doctoral dissertation quite
independently of Rizzi. All these are
naturally very serious crimes in the eyes of the Pune police.Worse still, Hany
has also argued against the three-language policy and said, ‘We need to
overhaul the language policy in education in such a way that all children have
access to primary education in their mother tongue (and not in the dominant
language of the state) … Therefore, we need a two-language
policy....
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