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Modi Rule Is Mob Rule

NOVANEWS Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said after Rakbar Khan’s lynching in Alwar in July 2018, “As Modiji becomes more popular, such incidents will take place. When Bihar elections happened, we had award wapsi… When UP elections came, mob lynching happened. Now 2019 elections are about to take place and again, something will happen. Incidents of intolerance will take place.” Meghwal’s statement underlines that the “mob” and Modi-Raj are linked to each other, and mob-lynching is not ‘anarchy’ so much as lynching planned and sponsored by the Sangh and the BJP Governments. The “mob” is not spontaneous – it is mobilised by the Sangh. Meghwal, of course, suggests that Muslims get themselves lynched to embarrass the Modi Government, but he does indicate a fact – that lynchings intensify...