The report alleged that both central and Delhi governments failed to instil confidence among the people while pointing to the utter failure of police in containing the situation.
53 people were killed and over 200 injured in the communal violence that broke out in northeast Delhi last month.
Staff Reporter / New Delhi
A fact-finding committee of the Congress on Monday submitted a report on the Delhi violence to party president Sonia Gandhi. Ms Gandhi had formed a team to look into violence in northeast Delhi.
The Delhi government has maintained that 53 people were killed and over 200 injured in the communal violence that broke out in northeast areas of the city last month.
The report alleged that both central and Delhi governments failed to instill confidence among the people while pointing to the utter failure of police in containing the situation.
It also alleged that the inflammatory speeches made by some BJP leaders in the presence of police officers was one of the major causes of the February riot.
The fact-finding team, that visited riot-affected areas in North East Delhi, also noted the utter failure of Delhi police in controlling the riots.
The team met with the victims and their families, both in hospitals and in their residences. They also visited the families of the Delhi Police head constable and an IB officer who were killed in the clashes
The team — comprising senior leaders Mukul Wasnik, Kumari Selja, Tariq Anwar, Shaktisinh Gohil and Sushmita Dev — had visited several riot-affected areas in the national capital in the past few days.
Gandhi had formed the team on February 28 and asked it to assess the situation in the riot-hit areas and submit its report.
Last week, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi led a party delegation to a riot-affected area in Delhi.
Gandhi, along with senior leaders KC Venugopal, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Randeep Singh Surjewala, Mukul Wasnik, Kumari Selja, K Suresh and Gaurav Gogoi, visited a private school and a mosque and saw shops that were vandalised and burnt in the violence in Brijpuri area of northeast Delhi.
Arun Modern Public Senior Secondary School, which is over 32 years old, suffered massive damage and the Congress delegation went around the gutted classrooms and surveyed the burnt busses.
Another delegation of Congress leaders from Kerala and other states also visited different areas in northeast Delhi.
Gandhi later told reporters, “This school is the future of India and here hatred and violence has devastated it, burnt it down. No one has benefited from this act. Violence and hatred are the enemies of development and whatever is happening today, India is being divided, torched. ‘Bharat Mata’ does not benefit from such actions.”
He urged all to unite and work together to take the country forward.