3 min learnNew DelhiUp to date: Aug 31, 2026 01:26 PM IST
A day after Chief of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi was booked for allegedly giving a casteist spin to a “purification” ritual held after Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s rally in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani, the occasion stated its employees would protest throughout the nation on Monday night “towards the BJP’s assault” on the constitutional values of social justice.
The Uttarakhand Police filed the FIR towards Gandhi a day after he demanded that BJP employees be prosecuted for the “purification” carried out on the venue of Kharge’s rally.
“That is nothing however the pot calling the kettle black! What’s worse, the BJP has truly jumped in to defend this abhorrently casteist behaviour, displaying to your entire world that they’re the largest perpetrators of social injustice right this moment,” Congress basic secretary (organisation) Okay C Venugopal wrote on X.
Venugopal alleged that the BJP was prepared to place your entire may of the state to assault those that communicate towards Dalit atrocities. “What the BJP has accomplished is to assault the values of social justice enshrined within the Structure, and the Congress will combat towards this assault tooth and nail. We won’t relaxation till the true culprits of the insult to Kharge ji are punished, and this frivolous FIR towards Rahul ji is thrown within the dustbin,” he added.
Venugopal additional wrote: “This night, Congress employees throughout the nation will probably be on the streets demanding prosecution of the BJP leaders who insulted Kharge ji and to defend our Structure towards the BJP’s assault on its values of social justice.”
The FIR was registered on Sunday, a day after Gandhi urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a press convention in New Delhi to order an FIR over a “shuddhikaran havan” held at Ramlila Maidan in Haldwani days after Congress president and Dalit chief Mallikarjun Kharge addressed a rally there.
Calling the act a “crime”, Gandhi stated that it illustrated the “untouchability” Dalits face throughout India and uncovered the “BJP-RSS mindset”. He reiterated that the Congress desires an FIR registered beneath the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Atrocities) Act towards these liable for the Haldwani ceremony.
‘No reference to any particular person or caste’
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The complainant within the FIR towards Gandhi stated he’s a member of the Valmiki neighborhood and that he, together with different members of the Scheduled Caste neighborhood, participated in a “cleanliness drive and spiritual ritual” held at Ramlila Maidan in Haldwani on August 11. He claimed the act had no reference to any particular person or caste.
On the premise of the grievance, the police booked Gandhi on prices of promotion of enmity between teams and deliberate acts supposed to outrage spiritual emotions, in addition to beneath the SC/ST Act cost of giving false or frivolous info to a public servant, inflicting that public servant to make use of their energy to hurt or annoy a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe.
