Who is responsible for the violence and firing at Dausa?
Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje and her government machinery isfully responsible for it. Vasundhara Raje has continuously electorally exploitedthe Gujjar community by offering them the lollipop of reservations by inclusionin the Scheduled Tribe (ST) list. But she has washed her hands off them when itcame to delivering on the promise. First, in the state elections, and then inthe Lok Sabha elections, the BJP made this promise and then went back on it.This is what has led to resentment in the people. Despite this, people wanted toput forward their point peacefully, but unarmed people were fired at and killed.
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But the government says that the firing had to be resorted to in order tocontrol the violent mob...
The government and its officials are lying. The firing took place at seven inthe morning. Does a rally ever take place so early in the morning anywhere?People had been agitated over this issue for a long time but the government justdid not do anything about it. The chief minister is too busy getting herselfworshipped. This did not even happen in the British period.
What has the centre done about the demand of the Gujjars? How does theCongress look at it?
These people are in Rajasthan and the primary responsibility is of the stategovernment. They state should send a proposal to the central government. Thestate Congress president BD Kalla has already said that if the government bringsforward any proposal, the Congress would welcome it.
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What do you plan to do now?
The Vasundhara government has been unsuccessful in fulfilling its constitutionalduty. We demand that chief minister Vasundhara Raje should immediately resign. And if she does not do that, the central government should intervene and dismissthe Rajasthan government. There is no law and order in the state. I plan to talkto the Congress president Sonia Gandhi and other senior leaders as well.
Is the Congress party not trying to cynically exploit this sensitive issuefor political advantage?
Vasundhara Raje and the BJP have politically exploited this issue. Now theyare feeling the heat of having played divisive politics. Vasundhara Raje is sosensitive that not even a peon of the government was sent to move the deadbodies or to move the injured to hospitals. The Congress is standing with thepeople against this insensitivity and police brutality.
