Summary:
People can see that any programme that BJP is running in Vajpayee’s name is only an attempt to hide its failure. As a result, they were going to any length to quell the agitations, including using terror against them. “This is giving a bad name to democracy. It was under this plan, she said, that the state had also targeted lawyers, journalists and intellectuals who were fighting for the rights of the oppressed communities, referring to the recent arrests of civil society members on the charge of being “urban Naxals”. The Centre had recently issued a directive, asking the media to desist from using ‘Dalits’ for SC/ST people.She hit out at BJP for the several cases of mob lynching in the name of cow protection, saying that this was the result of several years of BJP’s bias against Dalits, tribals, backwards, Muslims and other religious minorities..