New Delhi: Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat and senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel today issued a statement on recent Dalit atrocity in Samadhiyala village near Una and appealed the people of Gujarat to maintain peace and harmony.

“The recent atrocities on Dalits is a black spot on Gujarat. In the land of Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel, such events bring us nothing but shame. I condemn this incident in no uncertain words. I also appeal to the people of Gujarat to maintain peace and harmony. Violence is never a solution,” Ahmed Patel said in a statement.

Condemning the Gujarat government, Ahmed Patel said, “Given the track record of the Gujarat government in upholding the dignity of the marginalized we have no hope of a fair and objective probe by local authorities. Hence the need of the hour is an independent court monitored investigation to give justice to our Dalit brothers and sisters.”

“Such atrocities make the BJP’s celebration of Babasaheb’s 125th Birth Anniversary hollow and self contradicting. We wish to ask the BJP is this the Gujarat Model which was so well advertised before the nation in order to form the government,” he concluded his statement with this.

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