Rijiju backs PM Modi, says ‘law and order a state subject’

In an exclusive interview to our Bengali newspaper Anandabazar Patrika, Modi said the two incidents were unfortunate.

The Congress today questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inaction against BJP leaders who allegedly “supported” the Dadri lynching incident.

The Opposition is accusing the BJP of communalism but aren ” t they playing politics of polarisation, asked the PM. Click to know what more he said.

In a major embarrassing situation of the BJP, its allied party Shiv Sena gave threatening statements of disrupting the Pakistani singer’s concert which ultimately led to cancellation.

This is the first time that Prime Minister Modi has spoken not just about Dadri, but also about the events in Mumbai against Pakistan’s Ghulam Ali and former Pakistan minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri. He also underscored that his government had no role in these cases.

Even Eminent author Shashi Deshpande, who had resigned from the general council of the Sahitya Akademi, expressed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comment on the Dadri lynching incident were “far too weak”. BJP has always opposed such pseudo secularism. The whole incident took place due to the rumours that he along with his family had beef in the Bishada village of Uttar Pradesh. This debate can be resolved through dialogue and discussion.

Last Thursday, PM invoked President Pranab Mukherjee, saying the countrymen should follow his message given on preserving the core civilisational values of diversity, tolerance and plurality.

Modi claimed the parties resorting to such propaganda are the ones that did not want the development of minorities and look at them as vote banks.