NEW DELHI: Stepping up his assault at the Modi government for its failure to give protection to the interests of Dalits, Congress president Rahul Gandhi has directed the celebration's Scheduled Castes department to expose the "deteriorating condition of Dalits under the current political climate".
Rahul's assault issues to the "inaction of BJP governments in states" - Uttar Pradesh particularly - the place a large number of incidents of assaults on Dalits and spiritual minorities have surfaced. In a letter to Congress's SC department chairman, Rahul expressed anguish over rising circumstances of atrocities against Dalits and the "climate of fear and lawlessness that the Modi government has allowed to not only prevail but also flourish".
Rahul accused BJP ministers of "exhorting their followers to target certain communities". Saying it was once essential for Congress to achieve out to sufferers of "mindless violence" and publicly beef up them, he said, "The complicity of state agencies that makes such wide scale persecution possible must be exposed."
Rahul also said Congress's SC department must examine contemporary circumstances of violence against Dalits the place the state had did not act against the perpetrators and take up the problem on "all relevant platforms".
Rahul's missive comes days ahead of the August nine countrywide 'bandh' referred to as by way of Dalit groups, farmers' organisations and retired militia staff demanding that the federal government fulfil the promise of 1 rank one pension. The Dalit groups are pushing for the federal government to deliver an ordinance to reinstate the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, which was once "diluted" by way of the Supreme Court.
Rahul's assault issues to the "inaction of BJP governments in states" - Uttar Pradesh particularly - the place a large number of incidents of assaults on Dalits and spiritual minorities have surfaced. In a letter to Congress's SC department chairman, Rahul expressed anguish over rising circumstances of atrocities against Dalits and the "climate of fear and lawlessness that the Modi government has allowed to not only prevail but also flourish".
Rahul accused BJP ministers of "exhorting their followers to target certain communities". Saying it was once essential for Congress to achieve out to sufferers of "mindless violence" and publicly beef up them, he said, "The complicity of state agencies that makes such wide scale persecution possible must be exposed."
Rahul also said Congress's SC department must examine contemporary circumstances of violence against Dalits the place the state had did not act against the perpetrators and take up the problem on "all relevant platforms".
Rahul's missive comes days ahead of the August nine countrywide 'bandh' referred to as by way of Dalit groups, farmers' organisations and retired militia staff demanding that the federal government fulfil the promise of 1 rank one pension. The Dalit groups are pushing for the federal government to deliver an ordinance to reinstate the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, which was once "diluted" by way of the Supreme Court.
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