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Ashok Gehlot calls on BJP, RSS to denounce lynching

The CM said that it is the duty of BJP leaders to give a message against lynching in the manner of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Gehlot at the Hingonia cowshed and rehabilitation centre in Jaipur. (Express)

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday spoke up against mob lynchings and called for the BJP, RSS and VHP to denounce such incidents in a “clear-cut message”.

Gehlot said, “Incidents of mob lynching have increased, and the entire country is worried… Such incidents should not happen… No religion accepts or tells us to unnecessarily doubt someone and take their life. Despite this, there is an environment of fear, disbelief, and violence in the nation.”

The CM said that it is the duty of BJP leaders to give a message against lynching in the manner of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said that if the RSS, the VHP and the BJP have “a clear cut message” like Modi, who referred to mobs which lynch people as “anti-social elements”, then incidents of mob lynching will stop.

Gehlot also said that his government’s anti-mob lynching Bill is pending with the Centre. “They (the Centre) should come forward and support it because the Supreme Court has been mentioning (it) again and again,” Gehlot said.

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