Senior Congress leader and party president Sonia Gandhi has slammed the rising culture of mob vigilantism under the current dispensation. Calling the Modi government authoritarian, she said, "culture of vigilante violence was being actively supported by those who are supposed to enforce the law." Priyanka Gandhi and President Pranab Mukherjee have also spoken out against mob vigilantism. In the wake of the growing number of mob lynching cases in the country, Mukherjee asked whether people were vigilant enough to save the basic tenets of the country. He added, "I am not talking of vigilantism, I am asking whether we are vigilant enough, proactively to save the basic tenets of our country."

Source: India Today July 02, 2017 04:52 UTC