Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal had earlier questioned the “silence” of Prime Minister Modi over the matter and mentioned “let not 2024 general elections be the reason” for the violence. File
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Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on April 3 termed as “another jumla” Home Minister Amit Shah’s remarks that riots do not take place beneath BJP rule, and cited the variety of situations of communal violence beneath a BJP Government on the Centre and in some States.
At a public assembly in Hisua falling beneath Bihar’s Nawada district, Mr. Shah mentioned, “Let Prime Minister Narendra Modi return to power in 2024 with majority, giving 40 out of 40 seats [in Bihar], and help BJP form its own government in the Assembly polls in 2025. The job of straightening rioters by hanging them upside down [‘ ulta latka kar‘] will be done by the BJP.”
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“Riots don’t take place under our rule,” he mentioned.
Reacting to the remarks, Mr. Sibal mentioned, “Amit Shah: ‘Riots don’t take place under our rule.’ Yet another jumla (rhetoric).” The former union minister mentioned, “5415 communal riots reported between 2014-2020 (NCRB data). 2019 alone – 25 communal riots UP(9), Maharashtra (4), MP(2). Communal violence: Haryana(2021) highest cases, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh (April 2022)”.
In the wake of communal violence in West Bengal and Bihar, Mr. Sibal had on Sunday questioned the “silence” of Prime Minister Modi over the matter, and mentioned “let not 2024 general elections be the reason” for the violence.
Mr. Sibal’s remarks had come after communal violence rocked Sasaram and Bihar Sharif cities throughout Ram Navami festivities.
Mr. Sibal, who was a Union Minister throughout the UPA 1 and a couple of regimes, stop the Congress in May final yr and was elected to the Rajya Sabha as an impartial member with the Samajwadi Party’s assist. He just lately floated a non-electoral platform ‘Insaaf’ geared toward preventing injustice.
