Dalit youths beaten up in Maharashtra: Rahul Gandhi slams RSS and BJP

Congress president Rahul Gandhi today tweeted a video of Maharashtra youths who were beaten up and paraded naked in a village in Jalgaon district for swimming in a well that allegedly belonged to an upper caste man.

The Congress president also said that history won't forgive us if we don't raise our voices against poisonous politics of the RSS and the BJP.

"The crime of these Dalit children of Maharashtra was just that they were taking bath in a well belonging to an upper caste man.....History won't forgive us if we don't raise our voices against the Manuvadi and poisonous politics of the RSS and the BJP," reads the translation of the tweet by Rahul Gandhi.


Police have already arrested two men identified as Ishwar Joshi and Prahlad Lohar, in connection with the incident.

The alleged assault and stripping video of the boys went viral on the social media on June 10.

The video purportedly shows the two boys -- aged 15 and 16 -- being beaten up with a belt and paraded naked in Pahur village in Jamner taluka by the accused duo, a local police official said.

The boys had gone for a swim in the well belonging to Joshi, a farmer, in Wakadi village around 3 pm on June 10.

Earlier, Congress has alleged that atrocities against Dalits are on the rise under the Narendra Modi government.