New Delhi: The BJP leaders are pitching Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reply to no-confidence motion of Friday as a virtual launch pad of his campaign for the coming 2019 general elections. The reply was a complete one with government’s achievements and a stinging takedown of the Congress party.
But a senior leader of the BJP ally Akali Dali is pressing the Prime Minister to speak about something else too. His intention is that Modi should speak about mob killing which has till now claimed many lives and is developing insecurity among minorities.
“I do hope that in view of the recent lynching which has gone on in this country, the Prime Minister articulates his stand very clearly so that the minorities in this country feel reassured.” Naresh Gujral, 70, told News Agencies.
Mr. Gujral went into detail regarding his concern.
“My party is a party that represents a minority in this country. And we are concerned that there should be no insecurity in the minds of any minority,” Mr. Gujral, a Rajya Sabha member, said.
The concern expressed by Mr. Gujral in his wish-list for PM Modi’s speech is just after few days after the Supreme Court reacted sharply to mob lynching to death in the name of cow protection.
“In case of fear and anarchy, the state has to act positively. Violence can’t be allowed,” Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, who led a bench of three judges, told the government.
The Apex Court urged the center that a special law was needed to be legislated by the government to instill fear for the law among would-be attackers.
“Horrendous acts of mobocracy cannot be permitted to inundate the law of the land,” the court said.
There were many such incidents of mob lynching incidents in India and the trend saw a rise since 2015 when a 50-year-old man named Akhlaq was lynched to death near the Capital Delhi simply due to the reason that he was suspected to be in possession of beef. Most recently, the rumors spread through social media of a child kidnapping gangs on the prowl for victims have led to several deaths.
In a similar incident this last week, a software engineer and his friends were attacked by a mob in Karnataka’s Bidar after rumors were spread that they were part of a child kidnapping gang. The rumors were mainly spread through Facebook-owned WhatsApp, a messaging app. Users need to take all precautions not to spread such type of news especially in groups.
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