India: BJP leaders blame everyone but Dera Sacha Sauda for violence in Panchkula

scroll.in - 25 August 2017

‘A new threat to sadhus’: BJP leaders blame everyone but Dera Sacha Sauda for violence in Panchkula
Thirty people are reported to have died and over 200 injured in Haryana after a court convicted Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh of rape on Friday.

Even as 30 people died and 200 been injured in violence in Haryana after a Central Bureau Investigation court in Panchkula on Friday convicted Dera Sacha Sauda leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh of raping two of his followers 15 years ago, various Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and supporters, including Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, have begun to blame this violence on everyone but Dera Sacha Sauda followers.

“Anti-social elements got mixed up with followers of Dera Sacha Sauda and resorted to violence disrupting peace,” Khattar is reported to have said to the media late on Friday evening, after an initial neutral statement that he was monitoring the situation.

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