Modi govt 'aiding and abetting' country-wide lynchings: Congress
July 02, 2018 21:43
The Congress on Monday accused the Modi government of "aiding and abetting" incidents of lynching across the country, saying "anarchy, mob frenzy and jungle raj have become the new symbols of Narendra Modi's New India."
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi alleged that the country is witnessing 28 lynchings a month, almost one per day, which never occurred in 70 years of its independence.
"An absolute anarchy, mob frenzy and jungle raj have become the new symbols of Shri Modi's 'New India' under which an unprecedented atmosphere of hate and violence writs large," he told reporters.
The rumour mongering, state-aided license to kill and decimation of rule of law leading to a lynching movement' have shaken our 'national conscience,' he said.
"It is high time, the BJP government takes note of this widespread mob frenzy and lynching incidents. The BJP would do better to take note of the anger overtaking the citizens of India against vigilantism by their party men," he also said.
Singhvi said four years have passed and it is time for some corrective action as one has seen enough of platitudes, speeches and alibis.
He quoted Mahatma Gandhi, who had said, "Intolerance itself is a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of true democratic spirit".
Singhvi asked as to who has been spearheading a rumour-driven lynching movement' for the last four years when the police, administration and the authorities have remained the same.
"When the state gives the License to Kill' with impunity and abdicates its solemn responsibility to uphold the Rule of Law,' resulting in vigilantism, death and merciless killings of innocent lives, then each one of us should castigate it, decry it and question it.
"Social media (WhatsApp) driven rumours, resulting in killings of innocent people through rogue justice of mob violence has unmistakably shaken the collective conscience of our nation," he said.
Singhvi said in the past four years, Indians have added a new word to our socio-political vocabulary : Lynching.
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