BJP-run states top in crime against Dalit women: Akhilesh

Time of India

21-04-2025

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Lucknow:
Samajwadi Party
national president
Akhilesh Yadav
on Monday questioned the surge in incidents of crime against
Dalit women
, particularly in states which have a
BJP
govt and claimed that Uttar Pradesh tops in cases of
atrocities against Dalits
.
"Uttar Pradesh has become the number one state in the country in atrocities against Dalits. The question is why crime against Dalits in general, and women of the community in particular, is exceptionally high in states which have a BJP govt," Akhilesh said in a statement on Monday.
"UP, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha and Maharashtra are top states with maximum crime against Dalits and women of the community and all of them have a BJP govt," he said.
"Injustice and atrocities against Dalits are growing under the BJP. Not only the BJP govt is doing away with reservation and attacking the freedom of the people, but govt-backed goons and musclemen are also out on a murder spree," he said. Akhilesh cited the recent incident in Prayagraj where a Dalit man was torched alive for refusing to cut the wheat crop belonging to upper caste men. "The incident has shaken everyone," he said.
He claimed that BJP was a party of supremacists who basically had a feudalistic mindset. "The party offers only humiliation, disrespect and insult to people from Dalit, Backwards Classes, Minorities, Tribals and women. The BJP is yet to come out of the mentality that prevailed before India got freedom," he said.
"This was the reason why the BJP has been opposed to the Constitution. They post select people on top positions in their organisation as well as the govt," he said, adding that others were only assigned jobs like carrying party flags and raising slogans. Akhilesh said in the BJP, even if Dalits and Backwards were given a post to meet political compulsions, they were not given due respect and authority.
"The BJP contests elections in the name of Dalits and backwards but leave alone giving them CM's post, they are not given any responsibility," he said.
SP chief backs ex-CEC Qureshi
Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday came in support of former chief election commissioner SY Qureshi over BJP MP Nishikant Dubey's remarks describing him as a "Muslim Commissioner".
"Someone who is disowned by his own party should not make such comments on a retired govt servant who has held a high constitutional post," Akhilesh said.
Dubey had referred to Qureshi as a "Muslim Commissioner" for criticizing the Waqf Bill hours after BJP distanced itself from the MP's statement that the Chief Justice of India (CJI) was responsible for "grih yuddh" (civil wars) in the country.