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Targeting BJP, AAP on Sunday termed the Narendra Modi government at the Centre “anti-Dalit” and also called for the sacking of Union Minister VK Singh over his remarks in the wake of the Faridabad burning case.
The party also attacked Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar over the killing of two children and a teenager from the Dalit community recently in separate incidents in the state.
The SC/ST cell of AAP held a candle-lit protest at Jantar Mantar here in which placards were shown demanding the sacking of Singh. AAP has filed a police complaint against Singh over his controversial comments.
“BJP and the Centre have been anti-Dalit and we will expose the party across the country,” said Dilip Pandey, Convenor of AAP’s Delhi Unit.
Referring to the death of a 15-year-old Dalit under mysterious circumstances in Haryana’s Sonepat, Saurabh Bhardwaj, Secretary of AAP’s Delhi state unit, said that the party does not trust the Haryana government or the Special Investigation Team constituted by it to probe the matter.
“The Chief Minister says that the death was a suicide. It prejudices the whole case. Union Minister VK Singh has made a shameful statement. If need arises, we will protest against Singh, the Haryana Chief Minister and even against the Prime Minister,” he said.
Bhardwaj said that a case under the SC/ST Act should be registered against the policemen and the SIT probe should be monitored by a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Delhi’s Social Welfare Minister Sandeep Kumar, said, “There are growing atrocities against Dalits. We, people from Scheduled Caste, will fight the injustice against us.”
Minister of State for External Affairs Singh had kicked up a storm with his comments that the Centre cannot be blamed if somebody throws a stone at a dog in connection with the Faridabad incident where two children of a Dalit family were burnt alive.
AAP had yesterday attacked the Haryana Chief Minister for terming the boy’s death a case of “suicide” and also alleged that police had “managed” the medical board that gave the post-mortem report.
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