Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was indulging in “drama” when he spoke about atrocities on Dalits and asked if he would take action against his own ministers who spoke against Dalit students.
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Speaking to Catch, Haji Mohammad Salis, general secretary of the AISUC said PM Modi’s remarks came at a time when Dalits have completely gone against the Sangh (RSS) and the BJP.
Congress members trooped into the Well despite Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s assurance that she would let them have their say after the listed business. “I will allow him to speak”.
“There are many smaller parties here and it will be an injustice to the members”, she said. Congress members were in no mood to relent and staged a walkout.
“We will not be surprised if the Prime Minister has to face the wrath of the believers of Hindutva for his comments on cow vigilantes”. “He (the PM) should not shed crocodile tears. Rather than replying in the Parliament, he is making a statements outside”. “The statements were “notorious” (shsraratpurn) and politically motivated”, Mayawati told reporters outside Parliament. “We had asked for a discussion on the issue under Rule 193, but they did not answer”, he said.
“Some anti-social elements are taking law into their hands in the name of cow protection”.
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In an outreach to Dalits against the backdrop of the Una flogging incident, Modi, at an event in Telangana, yesterday decried the attempts to politicise the issue of atrocities on dalits and said he is ready to get “shot and attacked” in place of his Dalit “brothers”. “If you want to shoot, shoot me, but don’t shoot my Dalit brothers”, said the Prime Minister, while addressing a Bharatiya Janata Party’s “Karyakarta Maha Sammelanam” here.
