Youth Congress national president Amrinder Singh Raja Brar, speaking at a rally against fascism and State sponsored terrorism organised by the Congress Kozhikode Parliamentary Party here on Wednesday, demanded that all cases of police encounters that had taken place in Gujarat should be re-opened.
Mr. Brar made the demand in the wake of the reports alleging a plot to bump off VHP leader Pravin Togadia in a police encounter.
“The BJP has become a real anti-Hindu party now. It practises exactly the opposite of the Hindu philosophy ‘Lokah Samastha Sukhino Bhavantu’ ” he said.
The state of affairs in the country had come to such a pass that four senior judges of the Supreme Court had called a press meet to highlight the autocratic ways at the apex court. It was happening for the first time after Indian Independence. Atrocities against Dalits, minority murders and public lynching had become common after the BJP-led government assumed power at the Centre, he said.
However, the CPI(M) in Kerala was helping the BJP in the State, he said. The faction led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had overruled the decision of party general secretary Sitaram Yechury when the latter suggested that the CPI(M) join hands with the Congress to fight the BJP at the national level. Equating the BJP and the Congress was the most senseless statement, Mr. Brar said.
He ridiculed the Left government for allowing BJP national president Amit Shah to smoothly conduct a road show in the State as well as giving a guard of honour to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during his visit to the State. The Pinarayi Vijayan government had failed to take action against RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat who had violated government rules by hoisting the national flag at an aided school, he said.
