Madhya Pradesh SC body directs inquiry into Jotiraditya Scindia's alleged anti-Dalit act

The Madhya Pradesh Scheduled Caste commission taking cognizance of reports of an alleged anti-Dalit act by Congress's Jyotiraditya Scindia, has directed the collector of Ashok Nagar to conduct an inquiry into the matter.

Bhupendra Arya, the chairman of the SC commission, also plans to visit Ashok Nagar trauma centre that was inaugurated by a Dalit BJP MLA and which allegedly was cleaned with 'gangajal' before Scindia visited the facilty.

Arya will visit the centre on July 29 in an attempt to determine the chain of events and to find out what happened during Scindia's visit.

Scindia, a Member of Parliament from Guna, has refuted the allegations and has also served the Madhya Pradesh BJP president Nand Kumar Singh Chouhan with a legal notice, threatening criminal action against him.

Scindia also raised the matter in Lok Sabha saying that those leveling such allegations against him should give up their legislative/parliamentary memberships if they could not prove their claims.

The Bharatiya Janata Party, on the other hand, has turned the issue into a full-blow political affair, with party members burning Scindia's effigy at all district headquarters in Madhya Pradesh.

The Congress responded in kind, burning the BJP state president's effigy at district headquarters.

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