Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his charge that she was “shedding crocodile tears” over the Alwar gang rape, BSP supremo Mayawati on Sunday accused him of indulging in “dirty politics” and demanded his resignation for incidents of Dalit atrocities in the past. Hours after the Prime Minister’s remarks at election rallies in Kushinagar and Deoria earlier in the day, Ms. Mayawati said, “In the wake of this incident, Modi is doing dirty politics.” On the Prime Minister’s challenge to her to withdraw support to the Congress government in Rajasthan, she said, “The BSP will for sure take an appropriate political decision in the absence of stringent and proper legal action in the case.” In a press note issued here, she demanded Mr. Modi’s resignation over the Una flogging incident and the Rohit Vemulla case.
