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Popular Front of India Chairman OMA Salam has condemned UP Police action of attachment of people’s properties across Uttar Pradesh.
Salam called out the police department of the state, stating that their action is “a part of the vicious vendetta launched by the state government against those who protested against CAA and NRC.” The statement comes immediately after it was reported that UP Police is attaching people’s properties in the name of the vandalism during the anti-CAA protests, despite the High Court’s opinion against it.
Popular Front, which has been actively fighting hate speech against Muslims since the anti-CAA countrywide protests, has discussed this in its latest press release, terming this episode as “anti-democratic” and “violent.” The Front has also accused Chief Minister of state, Yogi Adityanath of seeking police help “to eliminate even the last straw of opposition in the state.” It has said that from the very beginning of the passage of the Citizenship Bill, the Yogi Government has dealt through “vandalism with people who participated in the anti-CAA and NRC protest,” exhibiting “extreme force and vengefulness” on them. Salam termed this as “characteristic to autocratic regimes.”
In the official statement of the Front, it has also spoken about the Delhi pogrom, suggesting that it is “clear evidence that UP joined hands with right-wing Hindu groups and carried out extrajudicial killings, torture and widespread vandalism against innocent people, mostly in Muslim localities and neighbourhoods.”
In its endnote, the release has accused that “police who were supposed to protect people’s lives and properties were acting as mere goons, yet there was no action against any officers or the right-wing goons.”
Concerning the attachment of properties in UP state, the Front has appealed to “all democratic forces in the country to raise voice against the collapse of the criminal justice system under Yogi,” and seek justice for the victims of this political vendetta.