Major Opposition Leaders Write to President Condemning Stan Swamy's Death in Custody, Demand that All Booked Under Draconian UA(P)A in Bhima Koregaon Case be Released

July 6, 2021 by News Desk

On Tuesday, various leaders of the major opposition parties wrote a letter to the President, Ramnath Kovind, expressing “grief and outrage at the death of Father Stan Swamy under custody.”

In the letter, the opposition party leaders say that the 84-year-old Jesuit priest and activist who fought for the Adivasis in Jharkhand was arrested last October on “trumped-up charges under the draconian UAPA and was sought to be linked with the Bhima Koregaon case.”

The letter further says that Swamy was denied treatment despite severe ailments, including Parkinson’s. And that it was “only after a nationwide campaign was conducted that even a sipper to drink liquids was made available to him in jail.”

The leaders expressed their anguish over the unheeded appeals demanding that he be shifted out of Taloja jail due to the rise in Covid-19 cases.

“His appeals for bail and being sent home too were rejected,” read the letter.

It was only after the Bombay High Court intervened that he was admitted to a private hospital when his health started deteriorating due to Covid.
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“But it was too late to prevent his death in custody,” read the letter.

The leaders further urge in the letter for him to intervene. “We are urging your immediate intervention as the President of India to direct “your government” to act against those responsible for foisting false cases on him, his continued detention in jail, and inhuman treatment. And that they must be held accountable.”

The letter stays that it becomes obligatory now that all those jailed in the Bhima Koregaon case and other detenues under politically motivated cases, “misusing draconian laws like UAPA, Sedition, etc., be released forthwith.”

The opposition leaders who signed the letter were –
Sonia Gandhi (INC), HD Deve Gowda (JD-S), Sharad Pawar (NCP), Farooq Abdullah (JKPA), Mamata Banerjee (TMC), Tejaswi Yadav (RJD), MK Stalin (DMK), D Raja (CPI), Hemant Soren (JMM) and
Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M).