DYFI Maharashtra state secretary Sathi Preeti Shekhar was arrested yesterday evening at 4.30 from her house by Azad Maidan police in connection with the old protest case from 2013 and has been kept in the Azad Maidan police station. Today around 3 she will be presented in the session court; therefore, she spent the entire night in lockup.
We certainly respect the court’s decision, but if they really wanted to arrest her, they could have done it this morning by visiting her house. This shows that police and government didn’t want to do this. Had they done this, comrade Preeti would have been bailed out in the afternoon itself.
In 2013, DYFI and SFI had arranged a massive protest against the ministry to fight for education and employment rights. In a state like Maharashtra that has a great legacy of progressive movements, is it a crime to build a protest to fight for the education and employment rights of Bahujan students?
It is absolutely shameful to know that the department of home affairs, which is under the pretentious progressive MVA government, uses the police department to arrest revolutionary protestors like comrade Preethi Shekhar repeatedly to mute the voices of protestors. The steps followed by them are similar to Modi and Shah. All these things like arresting and silencing protestors are currently happening in Maharashtra. .. DYFI warn you that we will intensify the protest to fight for students’ education and employment rights from the poor, labourers, workers, farmers, Dalit, Adivasi and Bahujan communities of this state and country.
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