 It is a failed government. Danger to India and India's constitution emanates not from an external power, but emanates from the central government itself. And almost acts as a spokesperson of the government, which is not the role of the media at all. Unless we are able to prevent this now, force the government to withdraw whatever precious measures they have taken, we are in serious danger. Police in this country is asking wife of somebody whom they are raiding, why she is not wearing a saree and a sindoor. Those who are sitting in these seats of power, they are sensing that the tide is turning. This is a reaction of the government against any voice of dissent. They have been fighting for people who have been convicted under UAPA and now the same provision has been acted on them. So you can see actually that the people who actually helped the marginalised people and who are fighting against these draconian and authoritarian laws, they themselves are being booked. So it is very systematic. It's sad, but it's not surprising. So it's very important to ground this reality that they are being arrested because they took a position against neoliberal policies. They took a position for Dalits and Adivasis. So that has to be foregrounded too. It can't act as a spokesperson of the government, pronounce a person guilty even before the process has gone through, and the whole hype and the whole build-up that the media contributes to this witch hunting is actually worrying. You can't support people who are suffering. When we had the long march from Nasik to Mumbai, also Poonam Mahajan made this charge that those poor peasants and Adivasis who marched in that Nasik to Mumbai, they were urban naxals. They say on television openly that we are going to arrest everybody and put them in jail. Even after the Supreme Court's intervention, they continue to use abusive terms against everybody including the judges who have supported the activists. What are they trying to say? Intimidate the Supreme Court itself by the kind of defamatory statements they are making that anybody who supports these activists are anti-national. What does it mean? That people who are critical of this government, which can be in any form, which can be the form of poetry, it can be the form of writing, it can be the form of speech, it can be the form of teaching, whichever way. So if you are opposed in any way to the policies of this particular government, then you are under the radar. In the context of the activities of the extreme right-wing organizations who are indulging in open terrorist activities and planning terrorist activities and the Modi government not taking any action whatsoever against them. And on the other hand, on clearly manufactured, I won't say evidence, but clearly manufactured stories for them to arrest five activists who have got nothing whatsoever to do with the organization or even the participation. It is absolutely a blatant and naked use of power to suppress dissent. The Elgar Parishad, that really took them as a major political blow. The Sanatan Sanstan, many investigations had reached a certain stage in the Gauri assassination case in Kalburgi and other related assassination cases that could not be subdued. You suddenly see the economic so-called dream more than crumbling. We know the condition of the rupee internationally. We know the RBI report that finally came out yesterday on demonetization, making a complete fuss of the black money claim of the Modi government. Corruption is like a no-no area with the Rafael deal now, where a good friend corporate of the Prime Minister is being benefited rather than the public sector defense company. We are also seeing that the personal expenses of the Prime Minister on his foreign trips, on his personal disease, whatever little has come out is scandalous and the rest is being concealed. So even corruption today is not an issue on which the BJP can stand strong. And yet the BJP is the only party that is telling the election commission that please don't cap election spending. So this clearly is creating an atmosphere for the defeat of the BJP and they very well know it. And these are actions just because of this truth that is staring at them in their face. So the question that Janta needs to ask is where is their money coming from? Who is funding them? Did demonetization benefit them? All these questions are going to be asked, will be asked in the four elections that come this year and in the elections next year. How do you stop these questions being asked? By sending a message like they tried to do day before yesterday that this is what we can do to silence dissent. Even today hundreds of Dalits are locked up in jails. Many of the activists who have been arrested are representing them. Today in Jharkhand I know there are so many cases where land is being grabbed by pro-corporate policies of Modi and BJP government. These activists are fighting those cases, representing in those cases. Their arrest means also a subversion of justice for those whose voices they are representing in court. So the constitution, democratic processes plus an assault on the legal fraternity itself. This country was rested from the hands of the British, the glorious freedom struggle, right? And all that freedom is now being bartered. So everything is actually opening up now. Now Rafale is there, Sanatan San San is there, their own misdeeds are there for everyone to see, their support to rapists is there. And now they are desperate to deflect the attention from all of this and create this hawa of whose anti-national this atmosphere of hatred. But people are not going to accept it, people are going to fight back. The reaction that has come to these arrests and the fact that the Supreme Court itself has moved against the government. I think this shows you that the credibility of this government per se is sinking rapidly. What we really need today is people's voices, people's movements, ordinary citizens standing up and saying no. We will not accept this anymore.