AAP sees role of BJP, RSS behind attack by cow vigilantes

The party said the incident, which took place on September 14 in Kanjhawla area of Outer Delhi, laid bare the “hollowness” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal against any such act and proved that it was a “mere rhetoric”. Kirari MLA Rituraj Govind wrote to the National Commission for Minorities stating that the accused, who brutally thrashed the victims, had identified themselves as “gau rakshaks”. A few elements were deliberately trying to give the incident a communal angle, he said.

“The Muslim community is extremely angry over the incident and a climate of tension is prevailing in the area... since staging these incidents are impossible without the political patronage of BJP and RSS, they should also be acted against as per the Prime Minister’s appeal,” he wrote. AAP Delhi Convenor Dilip Pandey said the hooligans going around with weapons and thrashing people on the pretext of “gau raksha” were only getting emboldened with time which, he said, was “ominous” for the country. “PM Modi had famously said shoot me if you want. Was that drama? It has turned out to be another ‘jumla’,” Pandey said.

Three persons, including a minor, were allegedly thrashed by a group of men when they were going to dispose of animal entrails and hide after Bakra Eid in Kanjhawla area. Referring to the alleged gang-rape of two girls, including a minor, in Aman Vihar, Govind said the area has earned the dubious distinction of being the “most unsafe” in the absence of a robust law and order machinery.