Pune: Pune Police have unearthed a plot wherein Maoists were planning a ‘Rajiv Gandhi type assassination of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The police have seized a letter from the residence of one of the five persons they had arrested Wednesday in connection with the Bhima-Koregaon violence. The letter is supposedly an ‘internal communication’ between top Maoists, disclosed police in a sessions court here Thursday.
Dalit activist Sudhir Dhawale, lawyer Surendra Gadling, activists Mahesh Raut and Shoma Sen and Rona Wilson were arrested by the police Wednesday. Described by the police as the ‘top brass of the urban Maoists’ the letter was recovered from Delhi-based Wilson’s residence.
“Modi-led Hindu fascism is bulldozing its way into the lives of indigenous Adivasis. In spite of big defeats like Bihar and West Bengal, Modi has successfully established BJP government in more than 15 states. If this pace continues, then it would mean immense trouble for the party on all fronts.” the letter read.
“Comrade Kisan and few other senior comrades have proposed concrete steps to end Modi-raj. We are thinking along the lines of another Rajiv Gandhi type incident. It sounds suicidal and there is a good chance that we might fail, but we feel that the party PB/CC must deliberate over our proposal,” the letter further stated.
In the letter, it is also written that for Maoists ‘defeating Hindu fascism has been our core agenda and a major concern for the party’.
It may be recalled that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated May 21, 1991 in Sriperumbedur, Tamil Nadu, by a suicide bomber from neighbouring Sri Lanka while on the campaign trail.
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