In the aftermath of the communal strife in southern Haryana, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and the state’s Home Minister Anil Vij, both of the Bharatiya Janata Party, have claimed that the attack on the Hindu religious procession in Nuh district that kickstarted the violence had been orchestrated and was part of a larger conspiracy. They implied the participants in the procession, who carried guns, swords and sticks, were not at fault.
On the other hand, Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala, from the Jannayak Janta Party, laid some of the blame on the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal for not sharing complete information about the event with the district administration.
Gurugram Lok Sabha Member of Parliament and Union Minister Rao Inderjit Singh, also of the BJP, has also blamed both sides for the violence. He said that the decision by some of the participants in the procession to brandish weapons was “wrong” and “provocati[ve]”.
Inderjit Singh’s…