Janata Privar propagates injustice-untouchability towards Dalits: RSS

NEW DELHI: The RSS on Sunday accused the Janata Parivar of propagating "untouchability" towards the Narendra Modi government and failing to treat people from the Scheduled Castes in UP and Bihar with dignity though its constituents claim to follow the ideals of Ram Manohar Lohia.

Sangh mouthpiece 'Organiser' in an editorial in its latest issue said that the formation of Janata Parivar against BJP emerges from the mindset of practicing new untouchability in the name of social justice and secularism.

"On the one hand, it propagates injustice-untouchability towards Dalits in states like UP and Bihar and on the other hand practices antagonism untouchability towards the Modi government at the Centre," it said.

After facing rout in Lok Sabha elections, Nitish Kumar resigned from the chief minister's post on moral grounds and installed Jitan Ram Manjhi as a "puppet CM", it said. "When Manjhi started asserting himself, he was removed unceremoniously from the post without any justification; how, suddenly, the moral responsibility of Nitish Kumar for the electoral defeat changed within ten months time is no difficult task to guess.