By Parmod Kumar,IANS,
New Delhi : Senior counsel and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP Satish Chandra Mishra could not have asked for more when the apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly castigated the Congress government in Haryana for its callous handling of anti-Dalit violence in Mirchpur.
Mishra, who appears in the Supreme Court only when a case concerns the throne of Lucknow where the BSP is in power, was present in court more for political pleasure than for any legal reason.
Mishra’s glee was only too visible as the court went hammer and tongs at the Haryana Police and administration for its failure to arrest the perpetrators of the Mirchpur violence and rehabilitate victims of the April incident. A man and his handicapped daughter were killed when people from the Jat community set fire to Dalit houses in Mirchpur village.
The Brahmin face of the BSP probably sniffed political ammunition, handed down by no less than the apex court. Haryana, after all, has a Congress government and the party’s leader Rahul Gandhi has been hobnobbing with Dalits in the BSP’s backyard, Uttar Pradesh.