Kumari Selja breaks down in Parl: I'm targetted for being a Dalit

November 30, 2015 18:53

The intolerance debate is still on in the Rajya Sabha. Congress MP Kumari Selja breaks down in Parliament saying she was discriminated against in Gujarat when she was a minister because she is a Dalit. She said she was not allowed to enter a temple in Gujarat. Selja was the union tourism minister in the UPA government.

Both houses of Parliament are hearing a debate on 'increasing incidences of intolerance' in the country. This morning, a comment attributed to Home Minister Rajnath Singh by Left parliamentarian Mohd Salim forced repeated adjournments in the Lok Sabha. Rajnath Singh strongly denied ever saying that India had the "first Hindu ruler after 800 years" after Narendra Modi came to power at the head of a BJP government last year. Salim, initiating the debate on "intolerance" in the Lok Sabha, had said: "How did fringe elements get the courage? I want to question the home minister. When Modi came to power, Rajnath Singh said "800 saal baad koi hindu phir se is desh ka shaasak bana hai (After 800 years, this country has a Hindu ruler once again.) Is this democracy? Is this secularism? Is it a part of the Constitution?"

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