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 Gopalgarh riot: Rajasthan Home Minister may lose his post for police “excesses”

 New Delhi: With a Congress fact finding team highlighting the police “excesses” and the government failure in dealing with communal violence in Gopalgarh area of Bharatnagar district in Rajasthan, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is facing the heat. The communal violence, which broke out on September 14 in Gopalgarh village after a controversy over a plot of land, claimed lives of nine Muslims and left more than 22 injured. All the dead belong to the minority community.

The central Congress leadership doesn’t seem very happy with the performance of the Gehlot government particularly when Gopalgarh incident was third instance of communal violence in the last one year under the Gehlot regime.

Bullet marks on Gopalgarh mosque

It is expected that the central leadership will ask Gehlot to take some strong action, sending a message to the minority community, which could assuage their anger with the Congress government in the state.

According to the inner circles in the Cngress headquarter here in Delhi, Shanti Dhariwal, the Home Minster of Rajasthan might be shown the doors over his handling of the communal violence in the state. The Mahapanchayat of the Meo Mahasabha has demanded Dhariwal’s resignation, a demand the party leadership might accept in order to placate the anger of the community.

According to the sources the central Congress leadership has taken the feedback of the party delegation which visited the riot affected area on Monday, very seriously. The team which included MPs, Rashid Alvi, Vijay Bahuguna, Viplov Thakur and Deepender Hooda, submitted its report to Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday.

It is very clear that the Congress leadership was not satisfied with Gehlot’s handling of the entire episode even though the CM visited Delhi to brief the party leadership about his own side of the story, and immediately ordered a CBI as well as a judicial enquiry into the violence, besides ordering the transfer of both the DM and SP of the riot affected district and announcing compensation and rehabilitation package for the victim.

What also came as a blow to the credibility of the Gehlot government was the indictment of the state government by the Congress fact-finding team. The team pointed out the police “excesses” evident from the material evidences on the spot including the firing in the mosque, burnt bodies in the well, the bullet ridden walls of the mosque and the blood stains found on the floor of the mosque.

The team has also reportedly indicated the central party leadership that the Gehlot government needs to be chided for failing to realize the political fall out of its mishandling of the communal violence in the state.

After killings in Gopalgarh mosque, bodies of Muslim villagers were dragged on the floor

The next strike on the Gehlot government was the criticism of the state government by Chandrabhan, the state Congress chief over what he termed as the “administrative lapses” which led to the situation going out of control.

“The police and administrative lapses are quite clear from the situation in Gopalgarh. Had the administration remained vigilant, the violence would not have happened,” Chandrabhan reportedly said.

The Congress leaders in Delhi told TwoCircles.net that minority votes might prove crucial to the Congress particularly when the party has hit its all time low. It’s not only the fact that the party cant afford to lose minority votes in the next assembly election in Rajasthan scheduled next year, the negative image of the party among the minorities might also affect the poll prospect in the neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh, which also shares border with Rajasthan.

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