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Cong, BJP indulge in blame game over Ganjbasoda incidents
Bhopal, Jan 19: Nearly a week after the violence in Ganjbasoda town in Vidisha district of Madhya Pradesh, a blame game has started between the ruling Congress and the Opposition BJP over the incidents.
Bhopal, Jan 19: Nearly a week after the violence in Ganjbasoda town in Vidisha district of Madhya Pradesh, a blame game has started between the ruling Congress and the Opposition BJP over the incidents.
Following the recovery of a cow's severed head from the house of a person belonging to minority community, an angry mob went on a rampage in the town and burnt several shops and some vehicles on Tuesday last, prompting authorities to clamp curfew. The curfew was lifted only last night.
State law minister Veer Singh Raghuvanshi, who is also Congress MLA from Ganjbasoda, blamed BJP squarely for the incidents, while BJP leaders - led by Union Minister for Coal and Mines Uma Bharti and Lok Sabha member from Vidisha Shivraj Singh Chauhan - blamed chief minister Digvijay Singh for the violence.
The BJP leaders alleged that Singh knew that cow slaughter was taking place in Ganjbasoda and yet had taken no steps to prevent it.
Had there been no cow slaughter in Ganjbasoda, there would have been no question of any violence taking place, Chauhan said.
Bharti says that the Chief Minister must be blamed for the communal violence in Ganjbasoda as he had been making statements that such a thing may happen in the state.
Singh's statements were of a provocative nature and he himself was interested in instigating communal violence in the state, she alleged.
Following the recovery of a cow's severed head from the house of a person belonging to minority community, an angry mob went on a rampage in the town and burnt several shops and some vehicles on Tuesday last, prompting authorities to clamp curfew. The curfew was lifted only last night.
State law minister Veer Singh Raghuvanshi, who is also Congress MLA from Ganjbasoda, blamed BJP squarely for the incidents, while BJP leaders - led by Union Minister for Coal and Mines Uma Bharti and Lok Sabha member from Vidisha Shivraj Singh Chauhan - blamed chief minister Digvijay Singh for the violence.
The BJP leaders alleged that Singh knew that cow slaughter was taking place in Ganjbasoda and yet had taken no steps to prevent it.
Had there been no cow slaughter in Ganjbasoda, there would have been no question of any violence taking place, Chauhan said.
Bharti says that the Chief Minister must be blamed for the communal violence in Ganjbasoda as he had been making statements that such a thing may happen in the state.
Singh's statements were of a provocative nature and he himself was interested in instigating communal violence in the state, she alleged.
Bureau Report