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MLA Jignesh Mevani |
4/1/2018
PUNE: Police
have registered an FIR against Gujarat Dalit leader and MLA Jignesh Mevani and
JNU student leader Umar Khalid for allegedly inciting passions between
communities, an official said on Thursday.
The FIR was lodged late on Wednesday following a complaint by
a 22-year-old student, Akshay G Bikkad, of Pune who took objections to the
speeches by Mevani and Khalid at Shaniwarwada on December 31.
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Umar Khalid |
In his complaint, Bikkad said that at a 'Yalgar Parishad' held
that day, the two speakers made inflammatory speeches that could create
misunderstanding between communities.
The complainant added excerpts from the speech by Mevani:
"The (January 1, 1881) battle of Koregaon-Bhima can be a war of tomorrow.
If they attack, it is time to retaliate, and winning this war will be a tribute
to the martyrs. Crushing the new 'Peshwai' can be a homage to the heroes of the
Koregaon-Bhima battle."
The alleged excerpt from Khalid's speech: "If we want to
win this war against the new 'Peshwai', we must carry forward the battle of
Koregaon-Bhima. If we want to carry ahead the struggle, it cannot be achieved
merely by electoral politics."
"I believe that people who fight for the public causes
must find a place in the legislatures in Gujarat and Maharashtra, and also in
Parliament. However, caste system can be uprooted only by taking the fight to
the streets. The dominance of one caste over the other can only be destroyed by
battling it out on the streets," Khalid allegedly said.
The complainant said that such inflammatory speeches can
create a wedge and enmity between communities and that provoked by these
utterances some unknown miscreants attacked the Victory Pillar (Vijay Stambh)
in Koregaon-Bhima, resulting in riots and arson on January 1.
Hours after the FIR by Pune police, the Mumbai Police denied
permission for a Chhatra Bharati-sponsored All India National Students Summit
scheduled in Vile Parle on Thursday morning.
The developments came in the wake of a series of disturbances
in Maharashtra starting with the desecration of a monument in Vadhu Budruk on
December 29, followed by the riots in Koregaon-Bhima that left one dead on
January 1, the 'Maharashtra Shutdown' that killed a boy and left a trail of
destruction across the state.
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