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"In what is billed as its largest operation ever, the National Investigation Agency has launched search operations across 10 states against operatives of several suspicious groups, mainly the Popular Front of India (PFI), for supporting terrorism." DNA. "The agency in consonance with the Enforcement Directorate, has raided the houses of national, state and local leadership of PFI, officials said." "Over 100 PFI operatives have been arrested." 'The PFI came into being in South India in 2007 with the merger of three Muslim organisations: the National Democratic Front in Kerala, the Karnataka Forum for Dignity and Manitha Meethi Pasarai in Tamil Nadu." DH. "It is similar to right-wing outfits like the VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad), the Hindu Jagaran Vedika and RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) in that it does social work for Muslims." "The RSS presents itself as a cultural, not a political, organization that nevertheless advocates a Hindu nationalistic agenda of hindutva or 'Hinduness'." Britannica. "Several of the major political leaders of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were or still are members of the RSS." The PFI is blamed for organising protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which eases the path to citizenship of India for religious minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. wikipedia. It does not apply to Muslims. On 13 September, "Parts of Kolkata turned into a battlefield after thousands of BJP workers took to the streets to protest against alleged corruption by the ruling Trinamul Congress government. A police vehicle was torched in Lalbazar area, while stones were pelted in Santragachhi amid clashes between the protesters and the police." HT. The PFI is charged with funding the riots in Delhi which began on 23 February 2020 after a speech by BJP leader Kapil Mishra against peaceful protests against the CAA by Muslim women. "Of the 53 people killed two-thirds were Muslims who were shot, slashed with repeated blows or set on fire." wikipedia. The PFI is blamed for bringing attention to a gang-rape and murder of a Dalit woman in UP on 14 September 2020. The Wire. "On the last day of September, India woke up to the disturbing news that authorities had forcibly cremated the body of a 19-year-old Dalit (formerly untouchable) woman who had alleged gang-rape and died a day earlier." BBC. The victim repeatedly reported that she was beaten up because she resisted rape but authorities kept denying it. BBC. "UP: Gang-raped & robbed, girl, 15, walks naked for 2km to reach home in Moradabad." TOI. Will they blame this on the PFI as well? Pakistani journalist Arifa Noor compares authoritarianism in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. "Free speech and a free press are under attack in the entire region." "The more democratic dispensations in India and Bangladesh (compared to Pakistan) have not led to more democratic structures such as freedom of speech." Thankfully, she didn't compare incidence of gang-rape. We may win.