Opposition parties on Wednesday demanded strictest action against the BJP activist caught on camera urinating on a tribal youth in Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi district which has triggered outrage across all sections of the society. Congress demanded a CBI inquiry into the incident.
Congress and BSP chief Mayawati demanded that the properties of the person accused of urinating on a tribal man be confiscated or demolished.
Dalits and tribals staged a protest at Indore in Madhya Pradesh to condemn the incident. The protesters, under the banner of Akhil Bharatiya Balai Mahasangh, raised slogans and waved placards alleging increasing atrocities on members of Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities in the state.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged that atrocities on tribals and Dalits are increasing under the BJP rule and said real face of BJP’s hatred towards tribals and Dalits was exposed with “inhuman act.” PNS
“Atrocities on tribal brothers and sisters are increasing in the BJP rule. The entire humanity has been put to shame by the inhuman crime of a BJP leader in Madhya Pradesh,” Rahul Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also slammed the BJP over the incident and said that “the inhuman and disgusting act done by a person close to a BJP MLA to a tribal youth in Madhya Pradesh is extremely shameful.”
During the 18 years of BJP rule in the state, 30,400 cases of atrocities on tribals have come to the fore, she claimed as several party leaders condemned the inhuman act.
Video of the accused identified as Pravesh Shukla, purported to be a local BJP leader from Madhya Pradesh, showing him urinating on a tribal person in the state’s Sidhi district recently went viral on social media leading to demands for his arrest from several quarters.
In a series of tweets, Mayawati said, “The incident of a local leader urinating on an Adivasi/Dalit youth in Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh is shameful, inhuman, and condemnable. The government waking up only after the video went viral proves their involvement, that too is very sad.”
Reacting to the incident the CPI said there are only insults for the marginalised sections in the “RSS brand of new India”. “CPI strongly condemns the disturbing and appalling incident of urinating on a tribal youth in Madhya Pradesh. The alleged BJP member’s despicable act is reflective of RSS-BJP’s culture. Marginalized sections only have insults, indignation and cruelty in RSS brand of ‘New India’,” Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary D Raja said in a tweet on Wednesday.
Shiv Sena (Uddhav) leader and Rajya Sabha member Priyanka Chaturvedi called BJP a sick faction in all spheres that only knows the art of traumatizing people, society, and country. “It is one of most shameful, heinous act ever recorded in India’s history,” Chaturvedi.