Mayawati targets PM Modi on dalit attack in Una

BSP supremo Mayawati Thursday launched a vitriolic attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS, alleging that on one hand they talk of “Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas”, but on the other target dalits and Muslims in the name of “gau raksha (cow protection)”.

“BJP, RSS, Shiv Sena and their other organisations, under a well-thought-out plan first targeted Muslims in the name of cow protection and now they are targeting dalits,” she alleged while addressing a dalit gathering after meeting family members of the victims here.

“Narendra Modi, who belongs to Gujarat, says ‘Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas’, but in reality there is no development for Dalits, only few industrialists and businessmen are getting the fruits of development,” she said.

She warned the BJP and the RSS to “stop committing atrocities against dalits as they are not going to tolerate it anymore”.

Ms Mayawati asked dalits to form an alliance with Muslims and try to form a government in Gujarat.

“You have to seek justice from the BJP government for Una incident. You need to form an alliance with Muslims and try to form a government here so that you do not have to seek justice but you are in the position give justice,” she said.

Later, speaking to reporters at the Ahmedabad civil hospital where she went to meet the four dalit victims, Ms Mayawati claimed that the BJP deliberately created a situation to keep her away from visiting Gujarat as it will “send out a wrong message about the party and government”.

She alleged that the BJP under a well-thought-out plan made one of its leaders in Uttar Pradesh, Dayashankar Singh, use indecent words against her, and the party sought Gujarat chief minister’s Anandiben Patel’s resignation timing with her announcement to visit the state, so that she does not come.