India / Mob lynching after 2014 what is truth behind congress leader rahul gandhi claim

New Delhi : Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday hit out at the Modi government, saying the word 'mob lynching' was not heard before 2014. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) retaliated strongly, denying Rahul's point and counted several massacres during the Congress rule, including the anti-Sikh riots. What is the truth apart from the allegations and counter allegations going on between Congress and BJP? Did the incidents of mob lynching really start in the country only after 2014, or has the dreadful face of the mob been visible in the country even earlier?

An analysis of media reports between 2010 and 2017 shows that there have been dozens of incidents of mob lynching even before 2014. Between 2010 and 2017, at least 63 such incidents came in the media headlines and obviously 'mob lynching' was a serious problem facing the country even at that time. The accused were beaten to death by the mob on the suspicion of theft, communal violence, honor killing and cow protection. Let us tell you that till April 2014, there was a Congress government in the country.

Half the incidents in BJP ruled states

Between 2010 and 2017, 32 out of 63 incidents of cow protection violence took place in the then BJP-ruled states, while 8 incidents took place in the Congress-ruled states. Other incidents took place in territories ruled by the Samajwadi Party (Uttar Pradesh), PDP (J&K) and Aam Aadmi Party (Delhi).

Major incidents of mob lynching before 2014

In April 2011, after the murder of a Zilla Parishad member in Sora village of Thobal district of Manipur, angry people thrashed accused Majibulah and his wife Nursana to death. In 2012, the incident of mob lynching of GM at the Maruti factory in Manesar near Gurgaon was strongly raised by the media across the world. After a dispute between the management and the employees, the mob set fire to the plant and Achar manager Avneesh Dev was beaten to death. On 30 June 2012, a 33-year-old Congress woman MLA and her husband were mob lynched in Assam. Congress leader Rumi Nath had married a Muslim after conversion, angering which around 100 people attacked the couple. Both were badly injured in the attack. In March 2013, there was a mob lynching of DSP Zia-ul-Haq in Kunda, UP.