New Delhi: Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Saturday linked Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity with cases of mob killings.
It must be noted that another man Akbar was killed in Rajasthan’s Alwar district where a dairy owner, Pehlu Khan was murdered by a mob that accused him of smuggling cows for slaughter.
When asked by reporters why cases of murders by cow vigilantes were reported from BJP-ruled states, Mr Meghwal, a junior minister in the centre’s water resources ministry said, “as Modiji becomes more popular, such incidents will take place”.
He said these incidents are happening in the wake of 2019 elections. Condemning the murder Meghwal he asked people to think about the root cause of this violence.
Meanwhile Sachin Pilot, the Rajasthan Congress chief lamented that killing of people on “suspicion” is sadly becoming a norm in BJP-ruled states.