India – RSF on the Abduction of 10 Activists
We hereby share a statement issued by the Revolutionary Students’ Front (RSF).
Yesterday, on 13/03/2026, several students, workers, intellectuals and mass movement activists were detained by the lackey civil dressed police of the Fascist RSS-BJP government in Delhi, illegally and undemocratically. Among those detained are members of mass organizations such as the Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch (BsCEM), FACAM and Mazdoor Adhikar Sangathan. Reports suggest that, these political activists were abducted first and later detained. This crackdown comes days before the programmes announced by these organizations including the annual observance on 23rd March as the martyrdom day of Comrade Bhagat Singh and his comrades, the martyrs of the struggle against British Imperialism and the Anti-Imperialist Week and lastly the Anti-Imperialist Convention scheduled on 31st March. There is a strong apprehension that false cases may be fabricated against the detained comrades.
Despite such state repressions, these mass organizations have continued to uphold the democratic, political voice. So many times we have witnessed attempts by the state machinery to silent them through attacking their members. Just last year, in July, several students and mass activists in Delhi were illegally abducted and detained without trial. Again in November, members of those democratic organizations were arrested during a peaceful protest in Delhi against severe air pollution.
Today, because of the war driven by US imperialism, severe crises have emerged across the world, including in India. Prices of fuel, gas and other essential commodities are hiking and availability are lowering. At this point, the country is witnessing implementation of fascistic agendas such as the ongoing SIR exercise. On the other hand, government has set a deadline to “eliminate Maoism” by 31st March. In pursuit of this objective, military and para military forces have been unleashed by the state, in the vast forests of the central India, where the state is carrying out brutal genocide on the indigenous people. In such a situation, the Brahminical Hindutva fascist government is determined to prevent the growing anger of the people across the country from organizing into a powerful movement. The aim is to clear every obstacle standing in front of its fascistic agenda carried out in the interests of imperialism. All dissenting voices, democratic individuals and organisations are being branded as “pen-wielding Naxals” and targeted for state repression in an attempt to silence and eliminate opposition. In this way, state repression is intensifying in an attempt to destroy even the remaining democratic space across the country, including in Delhi.
We, the Revolutionary Students’ Front (RSF), strongly condemn the undemocratic and illegal detention, abduction, and excessive police action against those mass activists in Delhi. The government and police authorities must immediately disclose the whereabouts of every detained comrade and ensure transparency regarding their safety and health. We demand the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners. Implication in false cases to the detained comrades will not be tolerated. If we do not unite against fascism at this moment, we will gradually lose even the minimum democratic space. The Revolutionary Students’ Front calls upon all democratic progressive leftist organizations and individuals across the country to demand to produce detained comrades before the public and the immediate release of them and to build a massive militant mass movement throughout the country.
