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, referring to the mob attack on a guest house where Mayawati was staying in after she withdrew support from the then Mulayam Singh Yadav-led SP-BSP government. Trivedi also alleged the Congress supported Article 370 in the erstwhile state of J&K, where the laws did not allow SC and STs to take up jobs, forcing them to take up menial work. BJP spokesperson Guru Prakash claimed when Priyanka Gandhi went to file her nominations, she was accompanied by her family while Kharge was outside.HTC...
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