Facing flak over “growing intolerance”, the Centre on Wednesday said a “misinformation campaign” is on to blame it for incidents outside its purview and accused the opposition of “showing intolerance” towards the people’s mandate for the Modi Government.
Putting up a strong defence of the Government, which has been criticised over the Dadri lynching and beef row, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said “some are trying to mislead and some are misled”, arguing that such incidents happened earlier too and the government has condemned them.
He said all the debate about beef and such issues was limited to some English media and others were not “bothered about this at all”.
“The government is not at fault for any of these things. law and order is a state subject. How can anybody be unfair and criticise the government of India for something happening in UP, something happening in Karnataka.... How can they try to link the Prime Minister with all the things, I am unable to understand.
“There is a misinformation campaign going on. I will only say that some are misled and some are trying to mislead because of the propaganda. In this country of 120 crore, such incidents happened earlier also, they have happened in the recent past and they are condemnable. The party has condemned them. The Government has condemned it and the Prime Minister himself has come out very strongly,” he said.
