: ‘Stan Swamy was killed in jail,’ says Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut #IndiaNEWS Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday blamed the Narendra Modi-led central government for the death of tribal rights activist

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‘Stan Swamy was killed in jail,’ says Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut #IndiaNEWS
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday blamed the Narendra Modi-led central government for the death of tribal rights activist Stan Swamy.“A government which is afraid of a crippled and weak 84-year-old person, is surely dictatorial by attitude and weak at heart, similar to that of [Adolf] Hitler and [Benito] Mussolini,� Raut wrote in his weekly column in the party’s mouthpiece Saamana.Swamy, an 84-year-old Jesuit priest, died in custody on July 5. The activist was undergoing treatment at the Holy Family Hospital in Mumbai after his health condition deteriorated in May. Swamy had been in jail for nine months in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case. He suffered from Parkinson’s disease and was put on ventilator support the day before he died.In his article, Raut compared the charges against Swamy and other jailed activists to those levelled by the Indira Gandhi government against former trade union leader George Fernandes in the 1970s.“Indira Gandhi was afraid of George Fernandes,� Raut wrote. “But he was a young leader at the time and not an elderly man like Swamy. The Modi government is scared of octogenarians like Swamy and [poet and co-accused in the case] Varavara Rao. Swamy was killed in jail�Commenting on the Elgaar Parishad event in 2017, on which the Bhima Koregaon case is...Read more

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