Senior CPI(M) Leader and sitting Sikar MP Amararam on Tuesday was denied permission to meet climate activist Sonam Wangchuk in the Jodhpur Jail.
Amararam, a CPM polit-buro, reached Jodhpur along with two-three party colleagues to see Wangchuk who has been lodged in the high security jail for four days.
On reaching the jail, the MP and the other Communist leaders were not allowed to meet the activist on pretext of Tuesday being a gazetted holiday.
Unhappy over the refusal to meet the activist, they resorted to slogan raising, pressing for permission to be allowed to meet Wangchuk.
However, the MP later agreed to convey his and his party’s support to the activist and express solidarity with his stir in Leh through a letter.
The activist was shifted to Jodhpur from Leh late Friday night after his arrest under the NSA in connection with violence during a demonstration in Leh on Wednesday last.
Amararam has deplored the Centre and the authorities in Leh and Ladakh for slapping the Magsaysay Awardee activist Wangchuk with the NSA, instead of inviting him for talks, he said over the telephone.
“What he is demanding (statehood) is not undemocratic or unconstitutional, rather the revoking the statehood from a region (by the Centre) was unusual and unprecedented. That in-fact was wrong,” the lone CPI(M) MP from Rajasthan said.
Since his demand is within the framework of the Constitution (under schedule 6), then why he has been booked under the NSA, he asked, adding Wangchuk is not a terrorist.
Over the situation in the troubled city of Leh-Ladakh, the ruling BJP/NDA have been functioning in a dictatorial manner, not only there but in the entire country, the CPM polit-buro member quipped.
The other day at a programme in the Jodhpur University in the presence of a senior party leader, BJP cadres got frustrated after they were not able to draw enough audience and then they assaulted a young student, the Communist leader charged.
“This arrogance and dictatorial conduct is not in line with the political culture of India and the psyche of its people. They don’t tolerate dictatorship for long. The power in this country doesn’t come to any one by inheritance, the saffron party should mind it,” he asserted.
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