Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Monday mentioned the state authorities will look at the speeches made at ‘Elgaar Parishad 2021’, which was held in Pune not too long ago, to see if any “objectionable comments” have been made on the occasion. “If any objectionable things are found, action will be taken accordingly… I can’t say more about it till the examination is on,” mentioned Deshmukh whereas talking to mediapersons in Nagpur.
On Sunday, BJP’s state unit spokesperson Keshav Upadhye had demanded that the state authorities take motion in opposition to Sharjeel Usmani, a pupil chief of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), for allegedly defaming the Hindu group throughout his speech at Elgaar Parishad this yr. The occasion was organised in Pune by the ‘Bhima Koregaon Shaurya Din Prerna Abhiyaan’ on January 30, which is the delivery anniversary of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit analysis scholar of the University of Hyderabad whose suicide had created an uproar in 2016.
Meanwhile, advocate Pradeep Gawade, state secretary of the BJP’s youth wing Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), on Monday filed a grievance on the Swargate police station within the metropolis. Gawade demanded that an offence be lodged in opposition to Usmani below sections 153 (a), 295 (a) and 124 (a) for his “objectionable” and “provocative” speech on the ‘Elgaar Parishad 2021’.
Usmani had been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police final yr for his alleged function within the clashes that broke out following protests in opposition to the amended citizenship regulation on the AMU campus on December 15, 2019. He is at the moment out on bail.
Other audio system on the ‘Elgaar Parishad 2021’ included creator Arundhati Roy, former IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan, journalist Prashant Kanojia, Dalit activist Satyabhama Suryawanshi from Latur, retired High Court decide B G Kolse Patil and retired IPS officer S M Mushrif, amongst others.
The ‘Bhima Koregaon Shaurya Din Prerna Abhiyan’ had additionally organised the primary ‘Elgaar Parishad, held on the Shaniwaar Wada in Pune on December 31, 2017, a day earlier than the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Bhima Koregaon.
An investigation by Pune Police had claimed that the conclave was organised as per the “strategy of the banned CPI-Maoist”. Police additionally claimed that “provocative” speeches on the convention have been amongst components that aggravated the violence at Koregaon Bhima on January 1, 2018. The National Investigation Agency had taken over the probe within the case final yr. Several outstanding human rights activists have been arrested in reference to the case, together with Sudha Bharadwaj, Gautam Navlakha, Varavara Rao and Stan Swamy, in addition to Elgaar Parishad organiser Sudhir Dawale and artists of Kabir Kala Manch, for his or her alleged hyperlink with the CPI-Maoist.
