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P. M. TONY LOTIKA SINGHA 04.21.2022
Radical priest Stan Swamy was one of India’s leading social activists. Modi’s government is to blame for his death while awaiting trial on bogus terror charges, but the clampdown won’t snuff out the inspiring legacy of Swamy’s work with Adivasi communities. https://jacobinmag.com/2022/04/narendra-modi-india-false-charges-terrorism-stan-swamy-adivasi-community

Institutional Murder of Fr. Stan Swamy: Ten Opposition Leaders Write to the President Demanding Accountability https://indianexpress.com/article/india/opposition-leaders-demand-action-against-those-responsible-for-foisting-false-cases-on-stan-swamy-7391895/  Act against those responsible for foisting false cases on him, his continued detention in jail and inhuman treatment. They must be held accountable. It is now incumbent that all those jailed in the Bhima Koregaon case and other detenues under politically motivated cases, misusing draconian laws like UAPA, Sedition etc, be released forthwith,” the Opposition leaders have said in their letter to Kovind.

S Sen : It's worth noting that apart from the two usual suspects - Mayawati and Kejriwal, two more - Uddhav Thackeray and, even, Akhilesh Yadav, have, this time, opted to opt out.

 https://gaurilankeshnews.com/a-bharat-ratna-dies-an-undertrial/ 

Leo Saldanha: As a student in the 1980s, I had the privilege of participating in various discussions on social change at the Indian Social Institute. Stan was there at that time. He would hang out with various groups, gently nudging them on fine-tuning their efforts in engaging with social reform. . Stan’s precision as a trainer and researcher on advancing social transformation was in step with his compassionate determination for securing fundamental freedoms of the most vulnerable. For securing which he stridently argued implementing Constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights is a minimum. He gravitated to struggles of the Adivasis in central India, Jharkand in particular, and helped organize them to fight for their rights over their land, over their forests, over their rivers, over their bodies, to protect their cultures and their memories of the place. 

Stan fought for rights of undertrials. In the end he died an undertrial. This blot on our nation’s consciousness can never be erased. Stan Swamy led a saintly life, peaceful to the core, without any animosity.