New Delhi: The day after Pastor Stan Sydium Swamy in detention, 10 opposition leaders wrote to President RAM Nath Kovind who expressed deep sadness and anger and demanded direct intervention.
Referring to the death of Swamy, held under UAPA in the case of Parishad Elgar, opposition leaders said that as President of India, Kovind had to direct “your government” to act against those responsible for activists “fisting” to activists.
They told them responsible for his sustainable detention in prison and because of “inhumane treatment” he was riding to him must be held to be taken into account.
The letter, signed by the leaders of the opposition, including the Sonia Gandhi Congress President, NCP Sharad Pawar, former HD PM Deve Gowda, Chief Minister of Mamata Banerjee, MK Stalin and Hemant Soren, along with the left leader of Sitaram Yechury and D Raja, said the President must Acting in the case of Swamy’s death.
“Now the leadership that all who were imprisoned in the case of Bhima Koregaon and other detenues under political motivated cases, misused Draconian laws such as UPA, incitement, etc., were released for a while,” said opposition leaders in their letters to the President.
They said the 84-year-old Jesuit Priest and activists who fought for rights and tribal causes in areas far in Jharkhand were imprisoned in October on “Costs”.
“He was rejected treatment for various diseases, including Parkinson’s weakening disease.
Only after the national campaign was carried out that even spipers to drink liquids were available for him in prison,” he said.
The signatories, who also put the Chief of the National Conference of Farooq Abdullah and RJD Tejaswi Yadav, also said that many appeals were made to shift Swamy’s father from Taloja prison who was too crowded, who had seen a large increase in Covid cases, leaving without being united.