TIA NEWS /New Delhi
Union Minister for Minority affairs Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Thursday denied any incident of beating or lynching in Rajasthan by ‘gau rakshaks’ (cow vigilantes).
He was responding to the opposition that came down heavily on the government in Rajya Sabha for being “insensitive and ill-informed” on the attacks on people by self-styled cow vigilantes.
Responding to opposition fury in the Rajya Sabha, Mr Naqvi said that the media report had been denied by the state’s Vasundhara Raje government. “We don’t condone lawlessness. No message should go that we are justifying such incidents.”
The Congress, which chorused that there was a “constitutional breakdown in the state” hit back. “The minister (Mr Naqvi) is ill-informed. Indian and Foreign press has written that man was beaten to death,” said the party’s Ghulam Nabi Azad.