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Calling a Critic a "Naxal" Doesn't Make Dissent a Security Threat

During his 80th Independence Day address from the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the term "dimagi Naxal," which BJP MP and former UP DGP Brij Lal subsequently described as referring to professors, teachers, activists, poets and writers who use their intellect rather than weapons. Congress leader Pawan Khera published a column criticising the phrase as conflating historically violent Left Wing Extremism with…