Bhubaneswar, November 21: Glorifying Maoists as “patriot of a kind”, controversial writer Arundhati Roy today accused Prime Minister and Union Home minister of “violating the Constitution and PESA (Panchayat Extention of Scheduled Areas) act by allowing corporates to use tribal land.”
“Patriot of a kind, they (Maoists) are. But here patriotism is very complicated. So at the moment what people are fighting for is to keep this country from falling apart,” Roy told reporters after addressing a meeting on “Cultural resistance to war on people in corporate interest”, organised by a magazine considered to be pro-left.
To a question, the writer-cum-activist, however, said she did not think there could be only Maoist revolution for solving problems. “There will be a new kind of alliance of all kinds of pople,” said Roy, whose visit here was opposed by saffron outfits like RSS and ABVP for her remarks on Kashmir.
–Agencies