Chavan: Beware of riot-mongers
Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday said that there could be attempts of orchestrating communal riots in the state. Speaking at a booth-level agents rally in Nagpur, Mr Chavan said that communal tensions benefited “some people” in the election and asked his party workers to stay alert in view of the upcoming Lok Sabha and state Assembly elections.
The Congress had organised the massive rally to gear up for the Lok Sabha elections. “Whenever communal riots have taken place, opposition parties have come to power,” said the CM, recalling the communal riots that rocked Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh recently.
All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary and in-charge for Maharashtra, Mohan Prakash, came down heavily on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for reportedly picking Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as BJP’s prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Ridiculing the RSS-BJP nexus, he said the Sangh Parivar fountainhead had often claimed to be a “non-political” outfit, but was not so in reality.
Making a tongue-in-cheek comment, he went on to say that when the BJP needed a doctor to treat “human beings”, indirectly referring to Mr Modi, it sought the services of a veterinary doctor like Mohan Bhagwat.
The daylong booth-level agents rally was organised for party workers of the Nagpur Rural Congress Committee and particularly Ramtek Lok Sabha seat, represented by AICC general secretary Mukul Wasnik.
After the rally, when asked about his remarks on communal riots, Mr Chavan evaded a direct reply.
He also confirmed that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi would visit Maharashtra. “He might visit one place in Western Maharashtra and another place, either in Vidarbha or Marathwada, to assess the damage caused by floods due to excessive rains,” Mr Chavan said.
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