New Delhi, May 22 (UNI) Expressing concern over the lynching of six persons by villagers in Jharkhand a few days ago, the Congress today said that BJP ruled states were descending into chaos and lawlessness and alleged that the NDA Government at the Centre was targetting those with different views and different ideologies. In a tweet, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said BJP ruled states were descending into chaos and lawlessness and demanded answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi in this regard. ‘’ From Raj to UP, Haryana & now Jharkhand BJP ruled states are descending into chaos & lawlessness.Will the PM answer?,’’Mr Gandhi said in a tweet. Six persons were lynched by villagers in Seraikela-Kharswan district in Jharkhand on May 18 on the suspicion that they were child lifters, the police said. The incidents took place under Rajnagar police station area following which agitated locals also torched two police vehicles. Later, addressing a press conference here, AICC spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said,’’ a lynching movement of innocent people has begun in BJP- ruled States. Lawlessness aided and abetted by the State has become the new India of today. This is the real new normal – not just the new normal you are being taught and told about this is the new India and new normal of the BJP. That is intolerance galore, innocents targeted, State-sponsored violence. ‘’ Terming the NDA Government at the Centre as ‘anti-human rights’ and ‘anti-dalit’, he alleged that the NDA Government at the Centre was targetting those with different views and different ideologies. ‘’ This BJP-NDA Government is a Whatsapp Government, a Whatsapp driven Government. It thrives on emotions and vulnerabilities of the people and uses it deliberately and mischievously to target those who may have different views, different ideologies. It has become the 'Pehchan', the modus-operandi and identity of the BJP. What is worse, it amounts to almost State-sponsored activity because every time we find, and some of these pictures in Media which show that the Police act as mute spectators. Law enforcement agencies are mute silent spectators. In Jharkhand in fact, Police were present – seven people were killed by mobs and figure may increase – I was astonished and shocked to find that even an 80 years old grandmother of the victims was not spared – badly beaten. What is this India we are living - this un-Indian idea of the 'Idea of India'? Is it the India of mob justice, instant nearest tree hanging, lynching justice in the world's largest democracy which we are proudly practicing because the philosophy of the ruling dispensation encourage it. Is it a methodology used as an excuse. It is a mindset which covers up the real object which is anti-human rights which is anti-dalit, communal, which is divisive and which is anti-humanity,’’Mr Singhvi said. .Seeking to underscore the fact of an increase in violence in BJP-rule states, he pointed out the incident of alleged dalit atrocities in Una in Gujarat and also to the incident of lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri. ‘’ This is my sad duty to remind you that Una in Gujarat when people were stripped, paraded naked, who were they, they were human beings like you and me. Similarly Dadri and Mohammad Akhlaq are not just a statistics – they are imprinted through media into our collective memory. Union Minister Mr. Mahesh Sharma termed this gruesome incident as an accident. Is this an accident when people are picked, singled out, plucked out for instant mob justice on mere rumour, on mere suspicion, on mere finger pointing, on mere suggestion, on mere innuendoes, insinuation. 23 former Bureaucrats - some of them very senior level - urged the Chief Minister of Rajasthan to arrest those who killed Pehlu Khan. How long could it take? What happened – insensitivity happened, stony silence, inactivity and cover up followed - how many examples - from Jammu to Rajasthan to Haryana. They all happened to be BJP-ruled States is one part of the theory - whether it is Haryana gang rape of 20 years old in Rohtak, whose face was smashed with brick, whether it was the cow vigilantes' brutal assault on a nomadic family in Jammu - so many examples. Is this the New India which Modi Ji wants to create, the so unindian India where ruthless mobs take law into their hands, where lynching is instant. Is this the intolerance - intolerance of majoritarianism and they are all encouraged, supported indirectly or directly promoted by the regressive and intolerant remarks of the BJP Leaders and senior bureaucrats and we are not talking of ordinary people, we are talking of Leaders like senior, MPs, MLAs, senior office-bearers,’’he said. . On the question of reaction of the Congress Party on BJP MP. Paresh Rawal’s comments on Ms. Arundhati Roy, Mr. Singhvi said it only validated his charge . ‘’ It is precisely the definition of democracy that even when you violently disagree with someone, you will defend to death their right to disagree with you. She is a citizen of this country and for an MP to express this view shows the mindset which has been seen consistently since 2014,’’he said. UNI AR ADG 2029