Surjewala said that “Prime Minister Modi must speak up and take decisive action”. It indicates that Govt is involved.
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The AAP chief met the victims in Rajkot and alleged that the state government was trying to suppress the scheduled caste community.
Reacting to the incident, NCP leader Praful Patel, who also accompanied Gandhi, criticised the Gujarat government’s slogan of “Gatisheel Gujarat” (Gujarat on fast-track), saying that such incidents happening were shameful and were proof that law and order had completely collapsed in the State.
Terming flogging of Dalit youths in Gujarat as “a stigma on mankind”, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday assured expeditious inquiry into the incident and said the probe has been handed over to the CID crime branch of the state police.
During the discussion, Congress members contradicted and contested social justice and empower minister Thawar Chand Gehlot when he said that the Dalit protests spread in Gujarat spread after the issue was raised in the Parliament and opposition parties tried to politicise it.
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Amid the escalating violence, mobs took to attacking the police with stones and killed a head constable on Tuesday. Rahul also announced an assitance of Rs 5 lakh to the seven Dalits who were beaten up in public. The BJP called Rahul Gandhi’s visit “political tourism”. The government in Delhi attacked the same family. 11 people who do not know each other have attempted suicide at different places. What does this mean? “Modiji talks about Gujarat model, but here whosoever raises his voice against their ideology, whoever asks for education, whoever stands against big corporates, is trampled upon and suppressed”, Mr Gandhi said.
