TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
On Friday, various political and human rights groups collectively held a grand protest in Kota district of Rajasthan against lynching and subsequent death of Pahlu Khan. Protesters accused the state home minister Gulab Chand Kataria for failing the state administration. Therefore the demand for resignation of Home minister was also raised by the protesters.
Pahlu Khan was lynched and later succumbed to injuries when a group of cow vigilantes attacked him in Alwar district of Rajasthan. The gruesome incident was referred to as “…nothing such happened” by Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, the Minister for Minority Affairs.
Welfare Party of India and Social Democratic Party of India were among the main organizers of the protest.
Muhammad Khalid, the state president of youth wing of WPI, said that everyone has to respect faith and religion of others, but crime and hooliganism will not be tolerated. He said, “If administration doesn’t stop public from taking law in hands, there soon will be situations like civil war in the state.”
District president of WPI Asif Hussain asked for capital punishment against the key accused in this case. He said, “those policeman should also be punished who stood and watched the whole lynching accident.”
Protesters also asked for Presidential rule in the state, saying the ruling BJP government is incompetent.
Protesters asked for an early resignation from Home Minister Gulabchand Kataria for being incompetent in handling the public administration. They handed a memorandum of appeal before district collector for Chief Minister of Rajasthan, a copy of which is sent to Hon’ble Supreme Court, High Court of Rajasthan and National Human Rights Commission.