Most of the accused in Palghar lynching are BJP members: Congress
The ruling Congress in Maharashtra on Monday alleged that majority of the people arrested for the last week’s mob lynching incident in Palghar district were members of the BJP.
State Congress general secretary Sachin Sawant also accused the BJP of playing “communal politics” to derive political mileage from the incident in which three people, including two seers, were killed by a mob apparently on suspicion of being thieves or child-lifters.…
“The village Divashi Gadchinchale is known as BJP bastion for the last ten years including the post of village head. The current head is also from BJP. Most of the people arrested in the lynching incident are from BJP,” Sawant Tweeted.…
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