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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.
Father Stan Swamy, who died aged 84 in Mumbai on Monday, was a Jesuit priest with a Marxian understanding of society and its problems that he imparted to thousands of youths while campaigning for tribal rights for over five decades.
Stanislaus Lourduswamy, which was his real name, was best known for his championing of the Adivasi cause in Jharkhand but hailed from Tamil Nadu.
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He was born on April 26, 1937, in Trichy and went to St Joseph’s School, where he was so deeply inspired by the work of the Jesuit priests that he decided to join the order.
He began pursuing religious studies in May 1957 and committed himself to the cause of the poor and downtrodden.