The CPI(M) on Monday said the repeated cases of firings at the Jamia Nagar and Shaheen Bagh areas here were a direct outcome of the “continued silence” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as Ministers and BJP leaders incite violence. “Repeated firings are an ominous and direct outcome of continued silence of PM as Ministers and BJP leaders incite violence. That one incident happens after another points to complicity. Peaceful protesters are demonised while those instigating & initiating violence go scot-free,” tweeted CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury.
When ministers provoke violence or thuggery, then no one is safe. Governments are responsible for every citizen’s safety. Peaceful protest is a right of every citizen. All Governments must respect that. Dissent is democracy. It cannot be met with hate-speech by those in high offices,” he tweeted.
“Law & order in the national Capital comes under the Centre. Responsibility and accountability for repeated provocative violent incidents falls directly and solely on the Union Home Minister and the Prime Minister,” he tweeted.