Resolutions adopted in the extended
Executive committee Meeting of Ganatantrik Adhikar Suraksha Sangathan
Ganatantrik Adhikar Suraksha
Sangathan, Odisha (GASS) demands that the government (both central and the
state) should honour various rights of the citizens ratified in the
constitution. Honouring this, all the para-military forces engaged in the state
of Odisha in the name of law and order situation should be withdrawn and the
state police should be taken into confidence. The GASS also demands that as the
number of under trial prisoners are increasing very rapidly in the state due to
slow pace of trial so all such prisoners who have already spent a year or more should
either be released on bail or their
trial should be completed within a year. No innocent shall be kept in jails for
months together without any trials.
On February 10, 2018 the extended Executive Committee
Meet of GASS was presided over by Dr. Fakir Charan Hota. It was also decided
that the organisation would work continuously to this regard and will press
these demands vigorously. The meeting was attended by the representatives from
eight districts.
Sri Deba Ranjan, the General
Secretary of the organisation, presented the annual activities report. The
representatives while discussing on the Secretary’s note expressed concern over
increasing crisis of unemployment and communalism in the state as well as in
the country. The participants decided that organisation would take up these
issues also to the people to find a proper solution to these regard.
The
representatives also discussed and decided to take up various other issues and
to press the demands before the government like;
1)
The state government should spend money allocated for deployment of paramilitary
forces to the areas like irrigation, construction of cold storage, creating
cooperatives societies, good infrastructure for proper health care and
education in the tribal areas.
2)
It is seen that the adivasis and dalits are more vulnerable to police
repression and often are dying while in custody. In case of custodial deaths, the
accused police officers should be suspended immediately and their trial should
be made in a separate court under SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocity) Act.
3)
All the arrested activists of different social movements such as adivasi
movement, dalit movement, farmers’ movement trade union movements and all other
democratic rights movements shall be recognised as “political prisoners”. Their
trials shall be expedited and innocent prisoners shall be released immediately.
Pension for Political Prisoners should be introduced and shall be given if they
get acquitted.
4)
The central government should abolish 124 A of IPC (sedition) immediately – a
legacy of the British Raj.
5)
The Forest Rights Act 2008, Right to Information Act 2005, SC and ST
(Prevention of Atrocity) Act 1989 etc. should be implemented with letter and
spirit. The proposed amendment of various Labour Acts should be stopped.
6)
In cases encounters, the Supreme Court’s guidelines given by the bench headed
by Justice RM Lodha and Justice R. Nariman should be followed strictly.
The Meet was also attended by Prof.
Birendra Nayak; Advocates like N Ahmad, Jnanaranjan, Kartik Sahu and Panchanan
Parida, activists like Sri Debi Prasanna , Mr. Surendra, Bideshi Gouda and
writers like Sunakar Bal, Debendra etc. At the end, Sri Brajendra Mohanty,
convenor of GASS, gave vote of thanks.
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