Mulayam link Dadri lynching to Muzaffarnagar Riots

Janjivan Bureau
New Delhi : Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav indirectly indicated the BJP and said on Thursday those behind the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots were involved in this case too, the conspiracy behind the Dadri,Bisada lynching was hatched by “three persons of a specific party” .
“The Akhilesh Yadav government should crush communal forces even if the government falls… Communal forces don’t listen. They have to be crushed. He (Akhilesh) should follow my example,” Yadav said.
“Someone is hatching a conspiracy to destroy communal harmony,” he added.
“Our government overcame the Muzaffarnagar riots and took the state on a development path. But communal forces could not digest this and now engineered Bisada (lynching) to cause rift between communities.”
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Sangeet Som recently said he would fight for anyone “wrongly framed” by the administration for the lynching of 55-year-old Mohammad Ikhlaq, who was killed by a mob on September 28 over rumours that he had slaughtered a calf.
Political sparring over the lynching intensified after Som, accused of making inflammatory speeches during the Muzaffarnagar riots, alleged that the Samajwadi Party government was appeasing Muslims and innocent people were being framed for Ikhlaq’s killing.
Yadav’s comments came a day after President Pranab Mukherjee appealed for tolerance, saying core values such as diversity and tolerance had kept the people united.
“We can’t allow the core values of our civilisation to be wasted. The core values are that over the years, civilisation celebrated diversity, promoted and advocated tolerance, enjoyed plurality. These core civilisation values keep us together over the centuries,” Mukherjee said.
Speaking about the upcoming elections in Bihar — where the Samajwadi Party broke away from the grand alliance of the JD-U, RJD and Congress — Yadav said he would go to the state on October 11 for campaigning.