Lucknow: All India Congress and Uttar Pradesh Urban Development Minister Azam Khan on Thursday, blamed the BJP government, for the Dadri lynching incident. Congress claimed these incidents were aimed at polarizing Bihar and could increase in the run-up to assembly elections in the state.
Azam Khan has alleged that BJP is behind the incident and it's trying to stoke communal tension in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the 2017 Assembly elections in the state. Azam Khan said BJP is trying to replicate their Muzaffarnagar riots strategy again.
The UP government has given Rs 10 lakh to the kin of a 50-year-old man, who was allegedly lynched by a mob following rumours that his family was involved in the slaughter of a cow in Dadri area of Gautam Buddha Nagar district on Tuesday.
Congress on Wednesday trained its guns at BJP-RSS for the lynching of a person in Dadri over rumours of beef-eating, stating that such macabre developments diminish India globally despite the glib talk about Google and Facebook.
It said intolerance and violence was on the rise across states since the saffron party came to power at the Centre while the Prime Minister's silence was eloquent.
Calling the horrendous lynching on the outskirts of Delhi as the handiwork of the "lunatic fringe out to divide the country", AICC spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said, "It is about those who espouse the philosophy of hatred. There is only one group, it diminishes India in the eyes of the world."
Taking potshots at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Singhvi said such incidents of medieval kind "nullify in seconds the glitter and pomp we see abroad or in India".
"We blame those who are creating such feelings that every person starts doubting his brother," he said.
Meanwhile, UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has also instructed the District Magistrate and Senior Superintendent of Police, Noida to provide full protection to the family of the victim.
Police said a case was registered against 10 people, of whom six have been arrested.
The man, Mohammad Akhlaq, was beaten to death on Tuesday and his 22-year-old son was seriously injured for allegedly eating and storing beef.
