Hitting out at the Union government over the death of Father Stan Swamy, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday said the tribal-rights activist was “killed” in jail.
The Sena MP further asked whether the country’s foundations were so weak that an 84-year-old man could overthrow the Narendra Modi government and equated it with the ones of Hitler and Mussolini.
Swamy, who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency in connection with the Elgaar Parishad case in October, died in judicial custody on July 5 while undergoing treatment at the hospital.
In his weekly column Rokhthok in Saamana, Raut compared this government to the one under Indira Gandhi that had accused George Fernandes of plotting to overthrow the government.