Brain Stormer: Home Minister Reveals Facts on Dalit Attack

The Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh revealed facts on Dalit attack on Thursday in the Lok Sabha. He brought to the LS that during the NDA regime in fact attack on the Dalits have dropped. He told the LS that in 2013 the cases of violence against Dalits were 39, 346 which roses to 40, 300 in 2014 and came down to 38, 564 in 2015 after the NDA Government has taken over. This was a serious step taken by the Home Minister which will help allaying fearsfrom the minds of the Dalits. Also he announced that the Home Ministry had asked the respective State Governments to take strict actions against all anti-social elements, whether in the name of Gau Raksha or any other cause who tried to harm any member of the Dalit community.

This was a significant move by the NDA Government and particularly by the Union Home Minister. Coming forthright with such facts will improve the track record of the Government and its various schemes initiated for the upliftment of the Dalit community. However, when there was a huge campaign by the opposition, the selected media houses and so-called left liberal intellectuals of the country, the Home Minister should have taken cautious steps and should have made these figures public. Why this delay? Why the Dalit attack controversy has blown out of proportion by the Congress-led opposition around the country?

Why the Government was projected as anti-Dalit by the opposition? It is widely believed that the Government could have taken precautionary steps. In that case, the anti-social groups could have never gone to the present extent for sure. The opposition which is now pretending to be the guardians of the Dalits are unnecessarily blaming the Government. Particularly, leaders like Mayawati, who are nothing but a curse in the name of Dalits should not fool the community anymore. She should show her track record of wasting money by making statues of Dalit icons in the past. This is how she served the community in UP. Therefore, the Government should have intervened right at the early stage and started a dialogue with the Dalit leaders and families of the victims. It would have been much better and wiser if the Prime Minister or the Home Minister could have paid a visit to the affected Dalit families. Hope such actions come in future.