Rahul urges Modi to order FIR into Kharge event 'purification'
New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday accused the Congress of doublespeak and using Dalits for its political gains, stating that the party's record of treating leaders from the Scheduled Castes bears testimony to that.
Addressing the media, lawmaker Sudhanshu Trivedi said the Congress party cannot claim to stand for the marginalised as there are various examples of how the party only raised issues pertaining to the Dalits to suit its politics.
He read out a list of atrocities against Dalits during Congress rule. "What happened in the 1995 Lucknow Guest House Case. UP's first woman Dalit chief minister Mayawati had blamed the Samajwadi Party of plotting against her. It was the BJP that went to save her," he said,...
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