Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi (File Photo) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi (File Photo)EVEN AS the Congress on Wednesday criticised the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh over attacks on Dalits in Saharanpur, there is disquiet within over what many leaders believe is the party’s “failure” to recognise the enormity of the issue and respond politically. Questions are also being raised on why Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has not visited Saharanpur so far. Several Congress leaders on Wednesday said the party should have taken up the incidents of violence in Saharanpur much more aggressively. Uttar Pradesh Congress president Raj Babbar did visit Saharanpur but that “did not have much effect”, the leader pointed out. The Congress on Wednesday fielded the party’s Scheduled Caste department head, K Raju, to take on the BJP-led government in UP.

Source: Indian Express May 24, 2017 22:20 UTC