Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal blamed the ruling BJP for the alleged “spurt in street violence across the country” and claimed that these incidents would stop once a coalition government came to power at the Centre.
He was speaking at a panel discussion, Conflicts in Democracy, organised by the All India Professional Congress in Nagpur. Terming the polarisation on religious lines a threat, Mr. Sibal said, “The source of conflict today is the fragmentation of ideologies. The country continues to witness a culture of domination by the Brahmin community. It’s a culture of exploitation. There has to be a distinction between the state and (ruling) party. This distinction has vanished under the present dispensation. If the BJP comes to power again, the street violence will continue but if a coalition government comes to power, it will stop.”
Calling the CAG observations in the 2G spectrum case a “mathematical fantasy”, he said that even the court and the media refused to believe the facts. Mr. Sibal said, “After the [Supreme Court] judgment, the spectrum was auctioned. The result is that the sector stands destroyed. Many players have run away. Now there is a monopoly [of a select few]. The industry is in the debt of ₹5,75,000 crore and even connectivity remains poor. You have to understand that the services are for the people and not for the government. But we lost our government because of this [2G issue].”
