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New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 6, 2019 19:45 IST
The topic of this session of India Today's Conclave East is Flashpoint: Sedition: The New Test Kit For Patriotism. Watch the session as four eminent personalities from different fields share their views on how sedition charges are being used by govts to muzzled dissent.
Ratnaboli Ray, mental health activist, who was one of the signatories of the letter written by intellectuals against cow vigilantism and faced sedition charges, said, "I was amused that such a letter could invoke sedition charge against us. It was a dhamki or a threat." she said.
While Justice Ashok Ganguly said, "Everywhere, whichever party is in power, they do not except criticism. Thus, they use sedition to target people just as the British did."
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