The Communist Party of India (Maoist) has condemned the ban on the Popular Front of India (PFI) and eight organisations affiliated to it and described the “fascist” BJP government’s decision to put a pan-India ban on PFI for five years as “draconian and anti-democratic”.
The CPI (Maoist) said, in a release, that the decision was an integral part of the Hindutva agenda and the Brahmanical Hindutva BJP had once against criminalised the Muslim community through the ban. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches in 11 States in a gap of four days and arrested more than 100 persons besides detaining over 250 belonging to PFI. These raids caused a lot of agony and discomfort to the arrested persons and their families.
The logic behind the ban involved three reasons, one among them being PFI and its affiliated organisations being engaged in “violent terrorist activities” and the other being the Front was establishing a reign of terror and disrupting peace. “The third is that the PFI is a threat to national security,” the CPI (Maoist) said in a statement, adding that these logics were only to outrightly curtail and decimate the forces opposing Brahmanical Hindutva fascism.
