This story is from May 24, 2021

Mob attack: BJP team visits Purnia village

A BJP team led by the party’s state treasurer and chief whip in the Bihar legislative council, Dilip Kumar Jaiswal, on Sunday visited Purnia district’s Majhuwa village where more than a dozen houses of Mahadalit community were attacked and burned down by a mob of around 300 people on May 19.
Mob attack: BJP team visits Purnia village
On reaching the trouble-torn village, the BJP leaders spoke to several members of Mahadalit community and took stock of the situation prevailing there.
PATNA: A BJP team led by the party’s state treasurer and chief whip in the Bihar legislative council, Dilip Kumar Jaiswal, on Sunday visited Purnia district’s Majhuwa village where more than a dozen houses of Mahadalit community were attacked and burned down by a mob of around 300 people on May 19.
Mewalal Rai (70), a retired village chowkidar and a member of Mahadalit community, was beaten to death.
The mob had also misbehaved with women and children following a dispute over a government land, police said.
On reaching the trouble-torn village, the BJP leaders spoke to several members of Mahadalit community and took stock of the situation prevailing there. “We interacted with several members of the Mahadalit community who were thrashed by the attackers on the night of May 19. The victims are frightened and they want security. We also enquired about the subsequent police action in the incident from the villagers,” Jaiswal told TOI. He said an old land dispute was the reason behind the attack.
“The BJP demands immediate arrest of all accused persons, speedy trial in the case, proper security to villagers and adequate financial assistance to the affected families from the state government,” Jaiswal said, adding the BJP team visited the village at the directive of the party’s state president and Bettiah MP Dr Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal. Party MLA Krishna Kumar Rishi was also part of the team.
The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) has also expressed its concern over the violent attack on Mahadalit families and demanded justice for victims.
In a statement, VHP’s national secretary general Milind Parande said, “The immeasurable havoc wrecked on the Mahadalits by the members of a minority community was a replication of violent attacks on BJP supporters in West Bengal after declaration of assembly poll results. The apathy of the local police, administration and the government on these heinous incidents of attacks, beatings, looting, violence and arson is very worrying.”
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