Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi leader Prakash Ambedkar on Monday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the violence in Manipur, drawing parallels with the ‘Gujarat genocide’.
“Violence started in Manipur on the model of Gujarat genocide. The BJP has always promoted religious polarisation and Brahminism in the name of ‘Achhe Din’, which is leading to an increase in hate crimes against Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and minority communities,” said Mr. Ambedkar.
Mr. Ambedkar, the grandson of social reformer and chief draftsman of the Indian Constitution, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, said model of ethnic cleansing and hatred, which brought the BJP to power during the ‘Gujarat genocide’, had now been imported to the northeastern States, evident in the ongoing violence in Manipur.
