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Tushar Kanti Bhattacharya aged 62 was abducted
by Gujarat
Police while he was arriving
to Nagpur from
Kolkata by Gitanjali
express at 7.30 AM. I quote here the
message sent by Prof. Soma Sen, Nagpur University “Thushar, my Husband was
mysteriously arrested this morning by Gujarath Police I have been trying Thushar
mobile from 6AM. But it was unreachable. At about 8.30AM, Senior Advocate Prakash Meghe informed me that Tushar called him to
inform that he was arrested by Gujarat Police and at Nagpur airport. The police
will take him by flight to Gujarat and may
be produced him in the court tomorrow. …”
Prakash Meghe, a senior lawyer informed that “Tushar
was abducted by Gujarat police team between Gondia and Nagpur. They allegedly
forced him to turn off his mobile phone, and after showing him a arrest warrant
issued by a Surat court in
connection with a 2010 case, whisked him away to Gujarat via
Mumbai.
Bhattacharya
was earlier arrested by the Bihar police in September 2007 in Patna and later
handed over to AP police in connection with a four-decade-old Maoist raid on
landlords at the historic Tappalapur village, now located in Telangana. He was
lodged at the Cherlapally Central Prison in Hyderabad. He was implicated in some
concocted cases and spent six years in Warangal and Cherlapally Central Prisons
and later acquitted in all the cases.
Tushar Bhattacharya was born and brought up in Kagaznagar as
his father was an employee in Singareni Coal Mines. While he was a student at
Advance Training Institute (ATI), Shivam Road,
Hyderabad, he was attracted to Radical Student movement in early 70s itself.
Afterwards, he joined CPI (ML-COC) lead by Kondapally Sitaramaiah. He organized
the peasant struggles in Adilabad district and later worked in Maharastra. In
Bombay, he oragnised the trade unions and other mass
movements.
While
in Kagaznagar, he was a student of two great Hindi poets, K. Venugopal and Tej
Rajendra Singh in School and through them came into contact with M.T. Khan, who
influenced him not only in politics, but Art and Literature. He is a prolific
writer in Telugu and Hindi. He is proficient in his mother tongue Bengali and
Marathi since he was long time political activist of
Maharashtra.
He
had many ailments. He shifted to his wife’s place in Nagpur in 2013 and staying
there pursuing freelance journalism, translations and literary
writing.
Gujarat
police alleged that he had association with the activities in the tribal areas
of Surat, Navsari and Dangs. Since Nagpur is the head Quarter of Vidharbha the
drought stricken most backward area of this country with coal mines and tribals,
he is seen by the State and the RSS headquarters as a pro-Dalit and pro-Adivasi
activist which alone is sufficient to name anybody an extremist or a
terrorist.
He
contributed short stories, poetry, memoirs to Srujana and
Arunatara.
I
demand the release of Tushar Kanth Bhattacharya, a 40 year acquaintance and a
friend forthwith without implicating him in any false cases.
I
appeal to the writers and democratic forces to raise their voice for release of
Tushar Kanth Bhattacharya.
President
: Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF)
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Tusharkanti was living a low-profile life
Shishir Arya| TNN | Updated: Aug 9, 2017, 01:25 PM IST Times of India.
Tusharkant
Bhattacharya
NAGPUR:
Son of an employee at Sirpur Paper Mills, 62-year-old Tusharkant
Bhattacharyawas a student leader in Sirpur-Kagazngar —
the town in Telangana known for the mills set up by Birlas. After
shifting to Maharashtra sometime
in the 1980s, he remained a trade union leader taking up the cause of
construction workers till 2000. His elder brother Kalol is also a prominent
union leader at Sirpur but is attached to the RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor
Sangh (BMS).
In 2007, Bhattacharya was arrested in Patna for attacking his landlord. After being in judicial remand for six years, he was acquitted and since then Bhattacharya was been living at Bharat Nagar locality off Amravati Road here.
Delhi University professor G N Saibaba, now convicted for supporting naxalite activities, came to Bhattacharya's house after he was released on bail from Nagpur jail last year.
After his release in 2013, Bhattacharya's family says he has been living a low-profile life earning a living by translating books. Currently, he was translating a Telugu book by left-wing activist Varavara Rao into Hindi.
"Saibaba is known to me as a professor of English. As far as Tusharkanti is concerned, he was always an activist with Leftist leanings but never directly related to any armed conflict or Naxalite activities," his wife Shoma Sen told Times of India.. She heads the department of English at Nagpur University.
In the quite lane the Rituraj Apartments, where the family resides, is located not many except the immediate neighbours know Bhattacharya and Sen. The couple has a daughter who is studying in Mumbai.
His neighbours do not remember of having any interaction with Bhattacharya except exchanging pleasantries whenever they seldom meet. However, they quietly admit of knowing through others that he was engaged in Leftist activism and had been jailed earlier.
Even though his neighbours term him a recluse, Bhattacharya was seen in several social programmes, especially hosted by the left parties.
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