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Fifth Column: Yogi needs to get the message
The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh was busy campaigning outside his state when the inspector was shot to death and his police car burned by a mob. When the news of this senseless, brutal murder reached him, his first concern was about cows.
There have been many killings over cows and beef in the past four years. But the killing of police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh last week was different. It is a signal that the hysteria that Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have deliberately whipped up is now out of control. Singh was the first police officer killed by killers spawned by the RSS, thereby the BJP, and he was the first upper-caste Hindu killed by the violent mobs who now roam states governed by BJP chief ministers. Will this come as a warning to them that they have failed in their fundamental duty to maintain law and order?
The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh was busy campaigning outside his state when the inspector was shot to death and his police car burned by a mob. When the news of this senseless, brutal murder reached him, his first concern was about cows. Newspapers reported that when he met senior police officers in Lucknow on his return from campaigning, he first asked that they ensure that there were no cows being slaughtered in rural Bulandshahr. The mob that gathered outside Subodh Kumar Singh’s police station became violent because they brought with them the remains of dead cows and were incensed that he did not do enough to catch those (read Muslims) who had killed the cows. Yogeshraj, a member of the Bajrang Dal, filed an FIR on whose basis four Muslims were arrested. Two children were named in it and released after questioning.
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