Praful Bidwai has presented the case of Dr. Sen in the best possible manner. He says'It's nobody's case that Dr Sen is a Naxalite, or a Maoist sympathiserEveryone who knows him, as this writer has done for many years, will testify to his commitment to peaceful means by which to fight for a compassionate and humane society. (alas he uses the same logic to justify the Poilce encounters and say thatthese encounters are to save the society from the criminals.) But what about the news reports that many a letters written by Dr. Sen sympathzing and motivating the Naxals, are found from his house?
But the real question is- Does a saintly priest of a robbers ( imagine a soft spoken intellectual ideologue) who often pray to the God for the gangs better future and never indulges in any of criminal acts of the gang is less a criminal then the brute gang members? and you get the answer
