Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told cow vigilantes to “shoot me” but not “my Dalit brothers”, focusing on the theme for the second consecutive day and running into charges of rank opportunism ahead of next year’s Uttar Pradesh elections. “Shoot me if you have to, but not the Dalits”, Modi said late on Sunday.
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“But the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central Government, especially Prime Minister Modi, remained silent for the past two years”, she said criticising silence maintained by the Prime Minister after lynching of 52-year-old Mohammad Akhlaq Saifi in Uttar Pradesh’s Dadari and suicide committed by research scholar Rohith Vemula on the Hyderabad University premises.
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi seems to have irked the Hindu Mahasabha activists with his remarks on the cow vigilantes. In his yesterday’s meeting at LB stadium, he once again fired on the issue of fake cow protectors and asked for the protection of Dalits.
Taking a dig at Indian PM, the Dal Khalsa spokesman Kanwar Pal Singh wanted to know from Modi as to why he kept mum when the so-called cow vigilantes stripped the four Dalits to the waist, chained them to a vehicle, and beat them for hours while the police and others looked on near Una (Gujarat). The group’s General Secretary Munna Kumar Sharma criticised PM Modi’s address, saying that a majority of gau rakshaks are criminals is absolutely false, and that even though the BJP said ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls that they will work to bring cow slaughter to an end, it has only increased since PM Modi came to power.
Four Dalit men, believed to be tannery workers, were publicly flogged last month in western Gujarat state for skinning a dead cow.
UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav accused the BJP of creating differences in society in the name of cow protection and deviating from the discussion on development.
Police in some parts of the country appear to be heeding what the Prime Minister said.
Prime Minister Modi has made a string of attacks against the gau rakshaks in the past couple of days.
“So please stop blaming us… that Congress has stalled GST”, he said. You can shoot me rather than target the Dalits.
“I would like to tell these people that if you have any problem, if you have attack, attack me”.
RSS also would like to appeal to political parties and various heads that there is a need to normalise the situation of uncertainty through public cooperation, Joshi said. “They are trying to hide in the overall ideology of BJP, Hindutva, protection of Hindu, cow etc”, he said.
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“He knew that he would not get a single Dalit vote”. Modi said the political pundits should start looking Telangana’s political future from a new angle just as they started viewing Indian politics differently after BJP held a historic meeting in Hyderabad in 2013, where people attended the meeting by buying tickets. I have seen some people who commit anti-social activities through the night, but don the mantle of cow protectors by day. He said ” There must be a “Saffron Revolution” in the country.
