Ranchi: Friends and followers of Father Stan Swamy have decided to stage “Raj Bhavan gherao” protest on July 15 to demand a judicial inquiry into the priest’s death, repealing of the UAPA and release of all political prisoners. Prior to the protest, his supporters would also carry out ‘pathalgarhi’, the tribal ritual of erecting stone tablets on Sunday after receiving the “sacred” soil from St Peter’s Church in Bandra, Mumbai, where Swamy was buried.
Hundreds of Swamy’s supporters congregated at Bagaicha here on Thursday in a condolence meeting and deliberated on the future course of action to pay tribute to him. The meeting, organised by the Adivasi Adhikar Manch (AAM), was attended by representatives of political parties, civil society organizations, human rights activists, tribal outfits and members of the Jesuit family.
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RANCHI: Civil rights activists under the banner of Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha (JJM) investigated the incident of firing in Kuku-Piri forest on June 12 in which one Bramhadev Singh was killed. The JJM team’s findings were similar to that of the BJP ST wing, which accused the security forces of opening fire on villagers and ruled out the involvement of Maoists. The only difference between the observations of the two fact-finding teams remained in the identification of the security forces.
While the BJP team blamed the Jharkhand Jaguar and district police, the Mahasabha did not identify any security wing.