Bihar’s Sushil Modi comes to Gujarat’s rescue on Dalit atrocities
Patna,(BiharTimes): Former Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi strongly defended the track record of Gujarat in comparison to Bihar on Dalit atrocities.
In a statement on Monday he said while there were 1,052 incidents of atrocities against Dalits in Gujarat in 2015 the number was 7,874 in Bihar.
Incidentally Bihar, which has much larger Scheduled Castes population than Gujarat, was ruled by a Dalit CM for almost the first two months of that year and the state also witnessed Assembly election in October-November.
This figure of 2015, according to SuMo, was about 3,000 more in Bihar as compared to Dalit atrocities in the state in 2013––it was on June 16 the same year that the BJP ministers were thrown out of the government by Nitish Kumar.
Without commenting on the recent incidents of anti-Dalit violence in Gujarat the senior Bihar BJP leader claimed that “cases of atrocities against Dalits have increased in Bihar, but the government is busy covering them up.”
He cited the example of Paroo block of Muzaffarpur, where two Dalit youths were reportedly thrashed and urinated on by some upper caste Bhumihars.
Modi also alleged that police in Kaimur district declared a case of sexual harassment and murder of a Dalit girl as suicide even before the report of the probe. He also cited some other relatively old cases of atrocities against Dalits in Bihar.
Patna,(BiharTimes): Former Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi strongly defended the track record of Gujarat in comparison to Bihar on Dalit atrocities.