CPI MPBinoy Viswam has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to travel by train through any north Indian state to gauge the extent of open defecation taking place in the country, days after two Dalit children were allegedly beaten to death in Madhya Pradesh for defecating in the open.
In a letter to Modi, Viswam has said the deaths of the two Dalit children days before October 2, Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary, should be investigated and that the prime minister should mention them in his speech.
"On October 2ndthis year, you will declare India an open-defecation-free country....I urge you to undertake a morning train journey through any of the north Indian states. What good is a declaration when our reality is this?
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