BSP MP Kunwar Danish Ali raised the difficulty of mob lynching in Lok Sabha throughout Zero Hour and demanded the federal government enact a legislation on it. He speaks to Harikishan Sharma.
Why did you elevate the difficulty within the House?
In 2018, the Supreme Court gave a judgment that Government of India ought to enact a legislation in opposition to mob lynching. Since 2018, many incidents of mob lynching have taken place however the authorities is silent. The authorities is enacting varied legal guidelines… however an necessary difficulty like mob lynching they’ve been avoiding.
Have you written to the Prime Minister or the Home Minister too?
No. However, I had raised this difficulty within the House in 2019 too after the Tabrez Ansari lynching case in Jharkhand.
Law and order is a state topic. Have you demanded an analogous laws in your state, UP?
I wrote a letter to the UP Chief Minister two years in the past. Some states are enacting it… just like the Jharkhand Assembly did lately. But the Union authorities’s consultant, the Governor there, stored it in abeyance and now it has been returned. The Union authorities and all BJP-ruled states are enacting all types of legal guidelines… they will enact legal guidelines in opposition to love-jihad however not in opposition to mob lynching. It is tarnishing our worldwide picture additionally.
Will you carry a Private Member’s Bill on this?
I hope the federal government brings the legislation, and pays heed to not solely my considerations but in addition the Supreme Court’s directives. I’m positively going to carry a Private Member’s Bill on this difficulty.
What else do you intend going ahead on this?
I’m additionally going to demand a dialogue beneath rule 193 in Lok Sabha as to why this legislation shouldn’t be enacted.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
