Sitaram Yechury questions BJP government’s silence on Maharashtra violence

CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury on Thursday questioned the government's silence on the violence in Maharashtra, alleging that Dalits may have been excluded from the ruling BJP's definition of who is Indian.

In a series of tweets Yechury tweeted:

Yechury's tweets came in reaction to clashes during the bicentenary celebrations of the Bhima-Koregaon battle on Sunday and the subsequent violence that spread across Maharashtra.

With inputs from IANS