AAP’s Rajendra Pal Gautam demands resignation of Modi, Adianath; Accused of failing to protect Dalits

AAP leader Rajendra Pal Gautam, who resigned as minister following a controversy over a religious conversion programme, on Monday hit out at the Prime Minister for failing to control crimes against Dalits in the country. called gautam Narendra Modi Demanded his and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s resignation over the incident of thrashing of a Dalit man by a weak PM and upper caste men in UP.

Stop this casteist lousy act Narendra Modi ji. Otherwise resign. The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh is a complete failure in handling law and order. I know you are such a weak PM that you can’t even take his resignation! Don’t you worry, Mera Bahujan Samaj will answer, Gautam said in a tweet in Hindi.

He also shared a purported video on his Twitter account which shows some people abusing and assaulting a person. It is alleged that the attackers belonged to the upper caste and the victim was a Dalit. Gautam, a former minister in Delhi’s social welfare department, on Sunday resigned from his post amid a controversy after he participated in a religious conversion program where Hindu deities were allegedly sacrificed.

The BJP had used the issue to attack AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal during the election campaign in Gujarat and accused him of being “anti-Hindu”. Gautam, who was the minister for social welfare, SC and ST and registrar of cooperative societies and gurdwara elections, said he is resigning as the minister as he does not want his leader or AAP to be in trouble because of him. According to sources, Gautam’s resignation has not been accepted by Kejriwal yet.

Controversy erupted after a video from October 5 went viral, showing Gautam at an event where hundreds of people had pledged to embrace Buddhism and not worship Hindu gods as gods.

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