Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad in a Facebook live video on Sunday attacked the Modi-government over the recent killing of a cop and a youth in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr. Chandrashekhar said that the cow should rather be declared a national animal and its slaughter should be banned in India if such incidents of cow vigilantism are to take place.
Making a personal attack, Azad said that PM Modi and most ministers in his cabinet do not have children and cannot fathom the pain of losing a son, father or a brother.
Posted by BHIM ARMY on Saturday, December 8, 2018
On December 3, a mob of some 400 people, including right-wing activists, violently rampaged through the Chingrawathi village, apparently after cow carcasses were found strewn in a jungle nearby. The incident led to the deaths of the inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and 22-year-old undergraduate student Sumit Kumar.
Chandrashekhar also hit out at the Sangh Parivar calling the Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parsishad and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha as terrorist organisations and said that these should be banned just how Baba Saheb had banned in 1956.
The Bhim Army chief said that the incumbent government was anti-Dalit and does not favour promotion in the reservation of the Bahujan Samaj despite the Supreme Court order and has no such intentions too.
Repeating the slogan of ‘Bahujana sukhaya bahujana hitaya’ several times, he called for the Bahujan Samaj and the Muslims to unite.
Chandrashekhar Azad, also called Ravan, was released in September this year after being lodged for more than a year in Saharanpur jail. He was booked under the National Security Act following a caste clash that killed one and injured many in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He founded the Bhim Army in 2014 to fight for the rights of the Dalits and marginalised.
