AAP demands 'sacking' of culture min Sharma over Dadri remarks

October 01, 2015 16:46

AAP today demanded the sacking of Union Minister Mahesh Sharma over his remarks that the Dadri lynching should be seen as an "accident" and alleged that the incident was part of BJP's "communal plot" akin to the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots.

AAP leader Ashutosh termed as "sinister" the chain of events leading to the killing of 50-year-old Iqlakh over alleged consumption of beef, and described it as a "conspiracy" by BJP to "break the country".

"Mahesh Sharma should be sacked," he said while condemning the Union minister for terming the incident an "outcome of a misunderstanding".

Claiming that the incident was part of a ploy to polarise society, he further charged that "the run up to the killing clearly shows a design similar to that of the Muzaffarnagar riots (of 2013)".

"Now, BJP is giving it a political colour while the local BJP MLA is justifying it and calling for a panchayat," he claimed while alleging that "BJP and Samajwadi Party play the game together in Uttar Pradesh".

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