New Delhi: Sixteen-year-old Junaid was stabbed to death on Friday onboard a Delhi-Mathura train near Haryana's Ballabhgarh. He, along with his brothers, was travelling to Delhi to buy clothes and shoes for Eid celebrations.
The Opposition parties, with Congress at the forefront, launched a scathing attack on the ruling-BJP, saying the country was getting increasingly polarised.
Congress spokesperson Gaurav Gogoi said his party had warned that "BJP's developmental agenda was only a mask, while communal hatred was the face". "The truth emerges as Hindustan becomes Lynchistan."
CPI-M's Brinda Karat on Saturday said that the Ballabhgarh incident clearly showed the communal hatred against Muslims. She said that the incident should be condemned, and such issues are the biggest challenges to the country.
Referring to the incident as "unfortunate", AIMIM President Asauddin Owaisi said it showed the atmosphere of hate and Islamophobia that is being created.
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi took to Twitter to express shock and dismay over the incident. "No one can explain this as 2017 India. Why such incidents only post 2014. Conspiracy of encouragement."
Singhvi attacked the BJP over the current disturbance in Jammu and Kashmir, too. "NDA has lost it in J&K... When PM Modi and Communal BJP talk about Pseudo-secularism, they should explain how endangered minorities feel on trains and buses where they can be lynched."
Junaid is second person to have been lynched in a span of less than a week. Three of his brothers who were also stabbed over a seat in the train sustained injuries. Recounting the incident, victim Junaid’s brother Shakir said their attackers kept alleging that they were carrying beef, but it wasn’t true.
On June 17, another man was beaten to death by municipal officials when he objected to them taking photographs of women defecating in open in Rajasthan.
Pehlu Khan, a 55-year-old farmer from Haryana, was attacked by a group of "gau rakshaks" when he was returning from a cattle market in Rajasthan. Khan was hit brutally in his head. Khan died two days later.
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