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Roma Malik, National Secretary, NTUI and Deputy General Secretary of the All India Union of Forest Working People (AIUFWP) and Sukalo Gond, Executive Committee, AIUFWP were arrested and interned at the Mirzapur jail. Many activists were arrested with them early yesterday moring from the AIUFWP office in Robertsganj (District Sonebhadra, UP) while preparing for a public meeting of the All India Peoples’ Forum (AIPF). The AIPF, a countrywide platform of democratic organisations and individuals, has held several programmes across the country to mark the dark days of the emergency and against the anti-people policies of the BJP government in the past week in its 100 day Campaign for Land Rights and Labour Rights. The Robertsganj public meeting was part of this nationwide plan.
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