Communist Party of India (Maoist) leader Sathwaji, who surrendered before the Telangana director general of police (DGP) this Wednesday stated that his party was not plotting the assassination of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said his party didn’t have the organisational strength for it.
A member of the central committee of the banned CPI(Maoist) party, Sathwaji has added that his party had no involvement in the Bhima Koregaon case.
In a chargesheet filed by the Pune police on the Elgar Parishad case, certain Maoist leaders were accused of involvement in a plot to kill the Prime Minister. After his arrest, Sathwaji stated that his party is in no ‘position’ to plot any assassination as it had ‘weakened’ organisationally over the years.
Admitting that the party is strong in Chhattisgarh, he stated that the Maoists are ‘working’ there. According to some reports, Sathwaji has claimed that he had met Varavara Rao in 1990 and he has since then no contact with the activist and poet from Telangana.
Speaking to the media after his arrest and that of his wife Vydugula Aruna, the leader denied any involvement in the Bhima Koregaon case. He added that they had not surrendered for money but to lead their ‘life ahead’.
The Telangana DGP Mahender Reddy spoke on the arrest to say that the police had been successful in ‘getting Sathwaji away from the movement’. Adding that he would be ‘living among us’, the DGP stated that Sathwaji would attend the related court trials.
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