Attack on Dalits a cause for concern: CPI leader

Lynching of Dalits not in tune with Hinduism, says Binoy Viswam

Communist Party of India (CPI) national executive council member Binoy Viswam on Friday expressed concern on the increasing number of attacks on Dalits and minorities and said that the BJP was trying to undermine the secular fabric of the country.

Speaking to reporters here, Mr. Viswam said that what was happening across the country in the name of Hinduism cannot be accepted.

In the name of Hindutva

The lynching of a member belonging to the minority community in Dadri and the killing of Dalits in separate incidents in Haryana was not in tune with Hinduism.

All these barbaric acts were being initiated in the name of Hindutva.

Mr. Viswam said that Hinduism was a religious faith and it does not advocate this kind of barbarism.

“We request all the Hindus to come out against the practice which the RSS is trying to put into effect in the name of Hinduism. India is a land of unity in diversity and the BJP is trying to kill the diversity and the secular fabric of the country.”

The CPI is politically bound that the unity of India should be upheld and the country cannot go forward without secularism. The RSS has been going ahead with these activities with the intention of undermining the secular fabric of the country as it believes that secularism stands against their ideology of Hindutva.

Alarming trend

Mr. Viswam added that the country had also been witnessing alarming trend in the fields of culture and education and scientific temperament had been thrown to the winds.