Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has slammed those “playing politics” over the murder of a Tripura student in Uttarakhand.“Everyone should be sad with any such incident happening with anyone from any part of the country. This is not a matter on which politics should be played. There is no point in playing politics over such incidents,” he said. On Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders holding the BJP responsible for the incident, Rijiju said, “Shame on them”. Anjel Chakma, a final-year MBA student at a private university here, was seriously injured when he was allegedly attacked by some youngsters with a knife and a bracelet on December 9. He died on December 26, after being hospitalised for 17 days.
His father, a BSF jawan currently posted in Tangjeng in Manipur, had alleged that his son was brutally attacked when he tried to defend his brother, who faced racial slurs and was called “Chinese” by the attackers. The assailants called his sons “Chinese momo” and hurled other racial abuses, the father of the victim said. Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders targeted the BJP, alleging that the murder was a fallout of the ruling dispensation “normalizing” hate and encouraging a “divisive mindset”.
