V K Singh's statement most unfortunate, says TMC

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Oct 22 2015 | 10:02 PM IST
Trinamool Congress today described as "most unfortunate" the remarks of Union minister V K Singh on killing of two Dalit children in Haryana's Faridabad.
The former army chief today said the Centre cannot be blamed if somebody throws stone at dog as he tried to defend the government over Faridabad Dalit burning incident.
"Most unfortunate statement by Gen Vijay Kumar Singh, Period," TMC national spokesperson and party's leader in Rajya Sabha Derek o' Brien said in a statement.
"See, the thing is, never associate local incidents with the Central government (sarkar). There is an inquiry going on. Here was a dispute between families. The dispute... How did it turn out... Where did the administration fail, after these it come to the Centre," Derek said.
"For everything... Like if somebody throws a stone at a dog, then the government is responsible... It is not like that," Singh said at Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, the constituency he represents in Parliament, while referring to the burning of a Dalit family in Faridabad, which left two toddlers dead on the intervening night of October 19-20.
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First Published: Oct 22 2015 | 10:02 PM IST