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It is the cult of violence that has spread in India

Why we have arrived here is something that needs to be understood and debated

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Sitaram Yechury
You have Akhlaq lynched at his dinner table because of the allegation that he was eating beef. It happened in 2015. Two youngsters in Latehar in Jharkhand were hanged because they were taking their cattle to the cattle fair. They were Muslim boys. You have Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer, lynched in Alwar. In Una, there were Dalits, who were skinning dead cows; that is the job, which, Dalits, unfortunately are to do. You have them lynched. The boys were whipped and lynched. And that was filmed. We’re just talking about social media. It was viral on social media. You
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