BJP’s outlook towards community, society responsible for Dadri mob murder

“Dragging and killing someone is a murder not an accident”, Owaisi said.

The Dadri incident is yet another reminder of the “new” strategy being brought to play by communal forces with the effort now to move away from the urban areas–where communal incidents were largely confined in the past–into the villages that had been the bulwark of secularism and had prevented the poison from spreading. “Yet, I made it a point to talk to prominent and influential locals belonging to both the communities and pacify the rising tempers, which could foment serious trouble”, he said.

The panel also noted that the incident was “communalism in its ugliest manifestation and can not, and must not, go unpunished in a secular nation”. “This attack was not because of meat”.

Terming the incident as “painful”, Union Minister Mahesh Sharma, who is BJP MP from Noida, said it happened due to “misunderstanding” and dismissed allegations that it was an attempt to polarise the village ahead of panchayat polls there.

“The state government has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the incident”.

However, kin of the accused claimed that they were innocent and implicated by police.

Condemning the brutal killing of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri over alleged rumours that his family consumed and stored beef in their house, Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister Azam Khan on Friday said that the fights between the Hindus and the Muslims should end in the name of meat.

“They want to rake up such issues”. We say today you are in power, so ban beef exports. Danish also came under the attack of the mob and is now in the hospital after suffering serious injuries. “In one bowl was cooked meat and in another bowl it was uncooked”, she said.

At least two other Indian states have adopted or tightened bans on the slaughter and consumption of beef since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party won parliamentary elections previous year.

AAP leader Ashutosh claimed police probe “clearly showed” that BJP was behind the incident and demanded Sharma’s sacking from the Union Ministry.

“The Prime Minister is ideologically complicit. Whether it is the state trying to intrude into people’s kitchen, bedroom, or telling them what to wear and eat, is an example of his mindset along with the BJP and RSS”, Tewari added.

With the ruling Samajwadi Party having burnt their fingers in Muzaffarnagar, where they failed in their discreet bid to reap any harvest out of the politics of polarisation, ignited by the BJP, official action in Dadri remained strictly objective. “Six of them have been arrested – Rupendra, Vivek, Sri Om, Sandeep, Saurav and Gaurav – all residents of Bisara village”, the police officer said.