When asked about the Delhi riot, he said it is a matter of investigation as to what were the reasons violence happened and who was responsible
New Delhi: Rajasthan Congress president Sachin Pilot on Friday once again criticized his own party’s government, this time over recent crimes against Dalits and the failure of the state home ministry, a portfolio held by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.
Pilot, sounded critical of his government a day after the alleged custodial death of a Dalit in the neighboring Barmer district and thrashing of two other Dalits youths in a motorcycle showroom in Nagaur district on February 16.
While slamming his own party’s concern over atrocities against Dalits Pilot said: “The way the spurt in crimes against Dalits have been reported, it was our duty to control these crimes and instill confidence in Dalits that it would not happen again,”.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi too had termed the Nagaur incident, in which two Dalit youths were brutalized on camera, as “horrific and sickening” and had asked the Rajasthan government to take immediate action to bring the perpetrators to book.
Sachin Pilot said “We have taken the crime and atrocities against Dalits seriously and would act in these matters. If there were any shortcomings in the administration and the Home Department, they would be addressed,”.
He stated while talking to media in Jodhpur, where he had visited to attend the wedding ceremony of party leader Karan Singh Uchiyarda. He had flown to Jodhpur after submitting a report on recent incidents of atrocities against Dalits in the state to party supremo Sonia Gandhi.
“I have given the report to the party president and government too has been doing its duty. Apart from the transfer and other actions, we need to give a political message that our government would have zero-tolerance against such anti-Dalit incidents,” said Pilot.
The Congress leader also emphasized upon his government’s on us to fix officials’ responsibility for the failure in preventing the crime and conveying the political message of the party’s zero-tolerance against anti-Dalit incidents.
“For this, we would have to further strengthen the Home Department,” said Sachin Pilot who has often criticized his own party government in the past on various issues, including the spate of death of infants in a Kota hospital towards the year-end last year.
Mentioning the corruption in the system, especially in the context of bajari mining, Pilot said: “harsh action, irrespective of the status, stature, and influence of the corrupt, will have to be taken to root out corruption”.
When asked about the Delhi riot, he said it is a matter of investigation as to what were the reasons violence happened and who was responsible.
“There were lacunae on the part of both the centre and the Delhi governments. Whosoever, is responsible, would have to be punished,” he said.
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