The daughters of the jailed revolutionary writers' association (Virasa) leader Varavara Rao today urged Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kishan Reddy to intervene into the issue of their father's arrest and take steps for his immediate release.
The two daughters of Rao - Anala and Pavana - informed the minister that their father had been kept in Taloja Jail of Mumbai as an undertrial in the Bhima Koregaon case, and that he had been admitted by the jail officials to the JJ Hospital in Mumbai after he was ill for three days at the jail.
They alleged that the jail authorities were not giving them any news about the health condition of Rao. They told the minister that a coronavirus positive patient had died in the same jail that Rao was lodged, and that the jail officials were not taking any steps to keep the environs in the jail clean. They also alleged that the jail authorities were keeping 30 inmates for 17 hours in a barrack.
They urged the minister to take steps for the grant of bail to Rao keeping in view his ill health.
Meanwhile, CPI former national general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy also demanded that the Centre immediately release Varavara Rao keeping in view his age and health condition.
He termed the incarceration of Varavara Rao as a cruel detention. He alleged that the government was keeping Rao in jail without filing any case against him. He also said that the union government had also not taken any decision on the bail application of Rao so far.
Reddy also demanded that the Centre release all other political prisoners related to the Elgar Parishad case.
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