Why isn’t PFI banned: Congress

The Congress on Thursday demanded to know why the government was not banning the Popular Front of India (PFI) if it is spreading hatred and disharmony and accused the BJP of using such groups as a sheild. At a press conference here, spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said: “The Congress is very clear on this. If an organisation like PFI is spreading hatred and disharmony, you have been in power for last eight years, you have your double engines in states, why are you not banning the PFI? “If you ban PFI, who will you blame after that…? How will you divert attention?” she said. “Sardar Patel banned the RSS on February 4, 1948 for spreading violence and hysteria within five days of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination; Why Modiji is not able to do this? Why is PFI not being banned for the last eight years?” She said Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been asking for a ban on PFI since 2021. “It is close to one year, why are you not banning it?” “In December 2020, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Supreme Court that the government was going to ban PFI. It is now April 2022. Why is PFI not banned?” She also mentioned a question asked in the Lok Sabha by BJP MP Tejaswi Surya. “On September 15, 2020, the then President of Yuva Morcha, who is now roaming around as a mascot of hatred, Tejashwi Suryaji, asked why is the PFI not being banned? The government said they will take necessary action when the evidence comes.” The Congress also focussed on atrocities on Dalits. “According to consolidated data available till 2020, there were 50,291 crimes against Dalits every year. In 2011, its number was 33,000. Today, on an average, 10 Dalit women are raped in this country every day. “Over 22 percent of reported sexual abuse of young children involve Dalits. But it is true that when this happens, the police and the administration torture the victim.”

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