Rajasthan Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rajendra Rathore accused Congress of politicising the Rakbar lynching case of Alwar.
Even before the uproar over the alleged lynching of a man in Alwar could ebb, a BJP legislator stoked another controversy by accusing the Meo community, to which the victim belonged, of being involved in crimes and claimed that he has banned them from entering his office.
Talking about Akbar’s killing, Alwar (Urban) MLA Banwari Lal Singhal told PTI that the law will take its course. But at the same time it is also a fact that people from the Meo community are involved in crime and entire Alwar is suffering, and people should know about this, he added. A local Meo leader, Sher Mohammed, called the MLA’s remarks an unfair generalisation of the entire community from Mewat region, spread over parts of Haryana and Rajasthan. The MLA blamed people from the region for crimes like robbery in Alwar.” Many of them come to Alwar from Haryana and return to their villages after committing the crime, he claimed. Singhal said he had earlier stopped people from Mewat from entering his office, claiming that most of them came only to seek favours for their relatives involved in crime. Sher Mohammed took exception to the charge levelled by the MLA. Saying that there might be criminal cases against people from the region, but generalising the whole community is unfair.
Moreover, Rajasthan Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rajendra Rathore accused Congress of politicising the Rakbar lynching case of Alwar. Such incidents are unfortunate and should not be politicised as the Congress is doing, Rathore said.
A team of senior police officers had been sent to Alwar and the matter was being probed, he said, adding three accused in the case have already been arrested.
—With agency inputs
PROTEST STAGED
Situation remained tense in Ramgarh as the Mev community staged a protest and burnt the effigy of prime minister Narendra Modi. They also gave a memorandum to the collector demanding that the guilty be booked.
BHANWAR JITENDRA SINGH ATTACKS GOVT
Bhanwar Jitendra who came to Alwar for the first time on Tuesday since being nominated to AICC launched a scathing attack on the government and demanded a CBI inquiry. “This is a conspiracy to cover up the failures of the government. They want to spoil the communal harmony in this area. I demand that a case of murder be registered against the accused under section 302 and that the case be handed over to CBI,” he said.
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