Navlakha Surrenders In Bhima Koregaon Case

Brut India

Accused of having Maoist links and conspiring against the government, Gautam Navlakha surrendered on Tuesday. In an interview to Brut last year, he had spoken about how the current administration deals with activists like him.

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00:00Conspiring against, to overthrow the established government in India, that's the serious charge

00:15that has been levelled against us.

00:30Charged by the Maharashtra Police along with some other friends of mine for conspiring

01:00against, to overthrow the established government in India, that's the serious charge that has

01:10been levelled against us.

01:13It's the same attitude that the regime has towards all dissidents, human rights defenders,

01:21social activists, even political activists who are working completely legitimately over

01:27ground.

01:28Well, I'm quite proud to call myself an urban Naxal.

01:32Urban Naxal meaning that I hold sympathies as a Naxal and I happen to live in an urban

01:43area which makes me an urban Naxal.

01:45Anti-nationalism has become the easiest way in which the government and the ruling party

01:51and its cohorts try to damn others who criticize them or raise questions.

01:58It's a nonsensical term because as far as we are concerned, if there is anybody who

02:04is a party or leaders who are betraying the real interest of the Indian people, it's the

02:17right wing forces in this country who shout the most about anti-nationalism and who claim

02:22that anybody who disagrees with them is an anti-national.

02:26For us, they are the ones who have betrayed the people of this country.

02:30We hold them responsible for all things that are going wrong in this country.

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