Nawanshahr - The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy has demanded their immediate release by canceling the case registered under UAPA against the boys and girls who entered the Parliament yesterday to speak. The party's District Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar leaders Kulwinder Singh Waraich, Daljit Singh Advocate and Kamaljit Sanawa have said through a press statement that
It has come to light that the police have booked Neelam Verma, Sagar Sharma, Manarana D, Amol Shinde and Vishal Sharma under the stringent UAPA. Those who have been caught on the charge of releasing gas in the middle of the Lok Sabha and outside the premises. Spraying from colored gas canisters is part of their protest, not part of "terrorism". No one was physically harmed by this. Sagar Sharma is an e-rickshaw driver and the son of a mason, Amol Shinde hails from a family of Dalit landless farmers who are unable to get a job in the Indian Armed Forces. While Neelam Verma and Manaran D are MPhil and Engineering degree holders respectively. Both unemployed, along with Neelam cleared the Haryana Teacher Eligibility Test but still did not get a job. Vishal Sharma has also been implicated in this case, as he had given shelter to four persons and was also not involved in the operation. Lalit Ojha, the sixth alleged accused and an unemployed youth, has been charged. The political opposition of these men against the fascist nature of their government reflects the anger of the working class, peasantry, academics and the middle class. The protest slogans raised by them were patriotism towards the people of India as well as slogans of dissent against the dictatorial politics of the rulers.
While the police are claiming that charging these persons under UAPA is the "appropriate course of action". Five persons have been kept under 7-day police remand. Amid the government's growing wave of fascism, where educators are finding no permanent jobs and ad hoc staff are losing their jobs, caste atrocities are on the rise and Dalit students are being attacked and forced to clean toilets.
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Where employment, food, water and shelter for working people continue to shrink, people's resistance should be protected rather than perceived as a "security threat". Peaceful demonstrations are also stopped on these arguments. For which permission is sought from the police and protesters are attacked. Democratic space is steadily shrinking and constitutional means of dissent are being robbed from the people. Bhagat Singh rightly said, "The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is an expression of the will of the people." Therefore, the question of the present time is not the question of protecting the security of the rulers, but the question of protecting the democratic rights of the oppressed and exploited people of this country from the rulers. Therefore, the use of UAPA for a protest against Neelam Verma, Sagar Sharma, Manajan D, Amol Shinde, Vishal Sharma and Lalit Ojha is to be condemned. They said that the charges against these six persons should be immediately withdrawn and their unconditional release.