After being denied permission to participate in an event organised by a Dalit Organisation, recently elected Gujarat MLA Mevani launched a sacthing attack on Central, especially targetting Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He asked Prime Minister to clear his stand on the attack on Dalits.
“Not even a single word of my speech was inflammatory, I am just being targetted. No part of my speech was provocative or inflammatory,” the newly-elected Gujarat MLA said.
Mevani was responding to an FIR registered against him for his alleged “provocative” speech during an event in Pune on December 31. He was addressing the media at a press conference in the national capital.
“I am an elected representative. BJP is scared of me. We want a caste-less India. Don’t Dalits have the right to protest?” Mevani said.
Mevani said the results of the Gujarat Assembly elections have dented the ego of BJP and the charges against him are politically motivated in the wake of his rising popularity.
“Members of Sangh Parivar and BJP made a childish attempt to tarnish my image and target me, it is an after effect of the Gujarat results and it is also because they have a sense of fear about 2019,” the Dalit leader added.
Mevani further said by targeting an “established Dalit leader” the government has offended millions of Dalits of the country.
Jignesh Mevani said that he would organise a Yuva Ahankar (youth pride) rally in the capital to protest atrocities against Dalits and other minority communities.
Jignesh Mevani and JNU student Umar Khalid were earlier booked by the Pune police for allegedly “creating communal disharmony” during a “provocative speech” at an event on the 200th anniversary of the Bhima Koregaon battle.
The events in Pune turned so ugly that it spread to other states like Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.
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