Essence of uncalled hatred towards UP CM; Islamist organisation Campus Front of India in a rally assault man posed as Yogi Adityanath

In yet another shocking incident, a video of a man dressed as UP CM Yogi Adityanath being roped and led by a group of men assaulting him has gone viral on the internet. The video was shot during the rally carried out by Islamist organisation Campus Front of India, who has been railing against the Uttar Pradesh chief minister for the prosecution of Siddique Kappan, one among 8 PFI activists charged for inciting communal unrest during the Hathras incident. Campus Front of India is the students wing of Islamist outfit PFI.

In the video, three mean are seen mimicking an assault against a man who bears stark resemblance to UP CM Yogi Adityanath. The assailants drag the man on the road and imitate an assault against him. The hatred is directed against Yogi Adityanath for acting against PFI activists, including Siddique Kappan, who are lodged in jail since the last after they were arrested by the UP Police for their alleged involvement in inciting unrest over the Hathras incident.

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Siddique Kappan was arrested by the UP Police on October 5 while he was proceeding to cover the Hathras case where a 19-year-old Dalit woman had died after a strangulation attempt. He was arrested along with three other persons, under stringent sections of UAPA and sedition charges for attempting to create a caste-conflict in the state amidst the ongoing Hathras case controversy.

Apart from Kappan, Siddiqui of Nagla in Muzaffarnagar, Masood Ahmed of Jarwal in Bahraich district, and Alam of Kotwali area in Rampur district were arrested. According to the FIR, the UP Police has charged all the accused under Section 17 of the UAPA that deals with raising funds for a terrorist act. The four people who were

apprehended from Mathura on October 5 were then sent to 14-day judicial custody.

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Launched in 2009, Campus Front of India(CFI) billed itself as a “neo-social students movement, which aims to empower the campuses by developing a new generation of activists”. Although it claimed to be a voice of “oppressed sections of society”, the origins of the organisation was traced to terror outfit Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), which was formed by a group of supporters of the Jamaat-e-Islami-e-Hind in the late 1970s.

In 2018, CFI found itself in the eye of a raging storm alleged involvement in the murder of Abhimanyu, a 20-year-old activist of the Students Federation of India (SFI). The Campus Front of India(CFI) is also a student wing of the extremist Islamist organisation Popular Front of India, which is accused for its involvement in anti-national and anti-social activities by the Indian government.