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More cases of violence against Dalits in Bihar: BJP hits out at Nitish

ByPTI, Patna
Jul 26, 2016 01:16 PM IST

The Opposition BJP questioned on Monday the silence of chief minister Nitish Kumar over incidents of atrocities against Dalits in Bihar, while making a hue and cry over an incident in Gujarat.

The Opposition BJP questioned on Monday the silence of chief minister Nitish Kumar over incidents of atrocities against Dalits in Bihar, while making a hue and cry over an incident in Gujarat.

BJP senior leader Sushil Kumar Modi addresses a press conference in Patna.(PTI File Photo)
BJP senior leader Sushil Kumar Modi addresses a press conference in Patna.(PTI File Photo)

Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi reeled out comparative data about cases of atrocities against Dalits in Bihar and Gujarat to support his attack on Kumar.

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In 2015, while there were 1,052 incidents of atrocities against Dalits in Gujarat, the number was 7,874 in Bihar during the same period, Modi claimed in a statement.

This figure of 2015 was about 3000 more in Bihar as compared to Dalit atrocities in the state in 2013, Modi said.

“Cases of atrocities against Dalits have increased in Bihar, but the government is busy covering up such events,” he alleged.

Modi, who is leader of opposition in the state Legislative Council, alleged that police in Kaimur declared a case of murder and sexual harassment of a Dalit girl as suicide even before the report of the probe.

The state government refuted allegation that a Dalit youth was urinated on by perpetrators of violence against them in Paroo block of Muzaffarpur district last week, he said.

The BJP leader referred to some other incidents of cruelty against Dalits in Darbhanga, Narkatiaganj and Jehanabad to allege that the state government tried to “cover them up”.

Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP), an ally of BJP in NDA in Bihar, also alleged that cases of atrocities against Dalits had increased in Bihar under the present regime.

National secretary of RLSP Seema Saxena alleged in a statement in Patna that cases of rape, molestation and violence against Dalits in Bihar had gone up recently, which was a result of deterioration in law and order situation.

She alleged that a 55-year-old Dalit farmer was shot dead in Samastipur recently and nobody was talking about it out of fear.

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