The CPI(M) polit bureau on Sunday blamed the Delhi Police for bringing its leaders’ names in the Delhi communal riots related case chargesheet. However, the Delhi Police clarified that the media reports in this regard are totally wrong and none of the leaders was mentioned as accused. CPI(M) MPs have decided to take up this issue in the Parliament Session, starting Monday, and have given a suspension of business notice.
“The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is shocked by the brazenness with which the Delhi Police, acting under Home Minister, Amit Shah has tried to implicate prominent political leadership, academics, cultural personalities and activists in connection with the horrific communal violence in North East Delhi in February. No condemnation is strong enough for this act of crude partisanship and vengeance.
“In scripting its own narrative of the organised communal violence, it is amply clear that BJP-RSS has gone about to portray Delhi riots being a “deep-rooted conspiracy” by anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protesters. In the latest sequel, the Delhi police have dragged in Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, renowned economist Jayati Ghosh, Delhi University professor Apoorvanand, Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav and documentary filmmaker Rahul Roy, among other prominent personalities, as persons who had, encouraged the protesters as part of a ‘plan’,” said CPI(M) in a statement.