Azad's killers

The sudden and violent death of Maoist ideologue Azad, especially when he was talking peace, is shocking. P. Chidambaram apparently gave Swami Agnivesh a cold shoulder when he went to meet him to demand a probe into Azad’s killing by the AP police. The media must expose the Congress’s double game forthwith. On the one hand, its leaders in the upa establishment are unwilling for a judicial probe into the ‘encounter’; on the other, they are patting Mamata’s back for sympathising with the deceased Maoist. Did the home minister, caught up in his Op Green Hunt, have the peace-minded Azad—who was well-regarded even beyond Maoist circles—‘taken out’ lest he lose his case for a ruthless attack on the Maoists, who he and the media in cahoots with the capitalist class have lustily portrayed as India’s enemies?

By Viswanath V
Published: Outlook