Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the lynchingof a young man by a mob in Jharkhand had pained him but said it was unfair toblame the entire state for it.
Breaking his silence on the crime which took place over aweek ago, Modi, speaking in the Rajya Sabha, slammed the Congress fordescribing Jharkhand as the factory of mob lynching and said no one had theright to insult a state.
“The lynching in Jharkhand has pained me. It hassaddened others too. But some people in the Rajya Sabha are calling Jharkhand ahub of lynching. Is this fair? Why are they insulting a state?” he said inhis reply to the Motion of Thanks to President Ram Nath Kovind’s address toParliament.
“None of us have the right to insult Jharkhand,”the Prime Minister added.
Modi said irrespective of whether such a killing takes placein Jharkhand or Kerala or West Bengal, the country should have a common stand.”Only then we will be able to halt the violence and those indulging inviolence will be punished.”
The remarks came two days after the Leader of Opposition inthe Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad, condemned the incident of mob lynching inJharkhand’s Seraikela district.
Azad has said that Jharkhand has turned into a factory ofmob lynching.
Tabrez Ansari, 22, died in a hospital, after he was thrashedby a mob at Dhatkidih village on June 20 on suspicion of theft. He was alsoforced to shout “Jai Shri Ram” slogans.
Ansari’s wife has questioned the role of the police in herhusband’s death, alleging he was not given timely medical treatment.