Watch | Arun Jaitley shames ‘acts of vandalism’ in strong message

Union minister Arun Jaitley today deprecated the rising incidents of intolerance and vandalism which he said was an “extremely disturbing trend” and called for a “civilised mode” of discussing and debating issues. He also said the BJP has put on notice some of its own leaders who had made controversial statements in the wake of the Dadri lynching incident, making it clear that the party has “outright shown our disagreement with these kinds of statements”. Jaitley's disapproval of vandalism resorted to by people to register contrarian views come against the backdrop of the Shiv Sena forcing cancellation of a music concert by Pakistani legend Ghulam Ali and talks between Indian and Pakistani cricket board Chiefs and blackening of the face of Sudheendra Kulkarni in Mumbai and ink attack on Jammu and Kashmir MLA Engineer Rashid here by a Hindu fringe outfit.