Nawanshahr - State convener of Punjab Democratic Front Jugraj Singh Tallewal and other leaders have rejected this claim of BJP government while issuing a press statement here today. That the Indian Judicial Code, Indian Civil Protection Code and Indian Evidence Act passed last year have been brought in to protect constitutional rights and deliver justice.
 It should be remembered that these laws, passed without debate in the winter session of Parliament last year, will replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Indian Criminal Procedure Code (CRPC) and Indian Evidence Act (IEA) from July 1. The leaders said that Modi government's excuse for legal cancellation is different and the target is different. The pretext has been made that this new legal system is meant to eradicate the legacy of British-era laws that were intended to strengthen and secure the colonial state.
 This claim of the BJP government is completely false because almost 83% of their text is old laws, they neither abandon the legacy of colonial laws nor are their impact pro-oppressed and democratic as per the requirement of justice. These new laws are also designed to turn the state into a police state by giving it more dictatorial powers, making the legal framework more oppressive and turning the already marginalized people into powerless, helpless subjects. . These are laws that stifle democratic rights by hollowing out constitutional rights and criminalizing reasonable, democratic opposition to government.
Embedding parts of the black law UAPA into new laws, including the definition of terrorism, giving the government unbridled powers to detain, arrest, prosecute and arbitrarily punish anyone termed as a terrorist and anti-national, extending the period of detention, Extending the scope of death penalty under the pretext of preventing sexual violence, generalizing special powers under the name of emergency, passing this law by the force of the majority in the parliament without public debate shows that the intentions of the Modi government by making these laws a tool. More and more dictatorial forces are out to seize and suppress dissenting voices. The leaders of the front have strongly appealed to all the forces concerned with justice and democratic rights to register their protest by burning copies of these laws and to raise a mass people's movement to stop this dictatorial act.