NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE’S MOVEMENTS & MUKUL DUBE
Statement issued by National Alliance of People’s Movements on 17 December 2014 and photos by Mukul Dube
India Gate, 600 PM : a call given by Delhi Solidarity Group and Nagrik Ekta Manch, AISA and others for candle light vigil at India Gate in memory of those dead at Peshawar siege was not tolerated by Delhi Police. Delhi police disrupted the whole programme and then used mild force on men and women. There were no women police officials but men not only misbehaved but also snatched away the candle. Once Swami Agnivesh joined the March they allowed us to move out of the radial on the main road, but there they cordoned off the whole area and then forcefully arrested Swami Agnivesh, Prof Apoorvanand, JNU president Ashutosh Kumar, Delhi Solidarity Group Convener Sanjeev Kumar, Women’s activist Purnima Gupta, farmers leader and NAPM convener Bhupender Singh Rawat and 15 others.
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