On eve of session, Opp hits back: bid to muzzle voices critical of Govt

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.

The naming of CPM General Secretary Sitaram Yechury; political activist and political scientist Yogendra Yadav; JNU professor and economist Jayati Ghosh; Delhi University professor Apoorvanand; and filmmaker Rahul Roy in a supplementary chargesheet related to the Delhi riots Saturday set off a political firestorm two days before the monsoon session of Parliament.

By linking protests against the new citizenship law to the riots and violence, even speech that had no incendiary context, the message, Opposition leaders said, was to muzzle voices…