INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Maoist links, saying that in the "new India", there was place for only one NGO -- the RSS.The Maharashtra Police today raided the homes of
prominent Left-wing activists in several states and arrested at least five of them as part of a probe into the violence between Dalits and
the upper caste Peshwas at Koregaon-Bhima village near Pune after an event called Elgar Parishad, or conclave, on December 31 last
year."There is only place for one NGO in India and it's called the RSS
Jail all activists and shoot those that complain
Welcome to the new India," Gandhi said in a tweet with the hashtag Bhima Koregaon.Earlier, Congress spokesperson Jaipal Reddy condemned the
raids and arrests saying no human rights activists should be arrested without a case."I condemn those arrests in unqualified terms
No human rights activist should be arrested
For that matter, no Indian can be arrested without proper case."I defend the rights of everybody, more particularly human rights protesters
They are selfless NGOs, activists, who are obliged to fight the enveloping darkness of dictatorial tendencies," he told reporters when asked
about the arrests of some activists by the Pune police.Near simultaneous searches were carried out at the residences of prominent Telugu
poet Varavara Rao in Hyderabad, activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira in Mumbai, trade union activist Sudha Bhardwaj in Faridabad,
and civil liberties activist Gautam Navalakha in New Delhi.Subsequently, Rao, Bhardwaj, Ferreira, Gonsalves and Navalakha were arrested
under IPC Section 153 (A), which relates to promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place or birth,
residence, language and committing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony, said the official.
