Maoists funding anti-CAA protests in Gaya, say police

A revelation by a woman Maoist that the Left-wing extremist outfit in Bihar’s Gaya has started funding anti-CAA and NPR-NRC agitations has sent the Bihar Police brass into a tizzy.
Anti-CAA, NRC protests  (Photo | Vinod Kumar T)
Anti-CAA, NRC protests (Photo | Vinod Kumar T)

PATNA: A revelation by a woman Maoist that the Left-wing extremist outfit in Bihar’s Gaya has started funding anti-CAA and NPR-NRC agitations has sent the Bihar Police brass into a tizzy. This comes on a day when the ultras blew up a school in southern Gaya and left a trail of anti-CAA posters at the site.

Police said, Nanhaki Devi alias Kalawati, 45, who was arrested on Sunday in Gaya while going to take part in a anti-CAA and NRC protest under the banner of Jan Abhiyan. She said she was asked by a top Maoist commander to organise protests against CAA and to reach Katari road area on Gaya’s western periphery where a dharna was staged last Sunday. She was also promised financial assistance.

She was held when she was on a ‘motivational round’ to get people to demonstrate. ADG(Operations) Sushil M Khopde said, “Some pamphlets have been recovered from the school blast site from Banke Bazaar area of Gaya, suggesting the Maoists are against CAA.”
 

Related Stories

No stories found.
The New Indian Express
www.newindianexpress.com