New Delhi: A video of TikTok star-turned BJP leader Sonali Phogat allegedly thrashing an official in Haryana has gone viral on social media.
In the clip, Phogat can be seen beating up the secretary of the Hisar Market Committee, Sultan Singh, with her slipper when she visited the Balsamand Mandi in the district.
She can be heard saying in the clip: “Am I working to hear abuses from people like you? Do I not have the right to a dignified life. You (abusive word)…you have no right to live.”
Tik tok star and bjp candidate from Hisar Sonali phogat beats up an official – accuses him of using bad language against her . pic.twitter.com/kqVQ7RS30C
— pallavi ghosh (@_pallavighosh) June 5, 2020
Ganga Ram Punia, superintendent of police in Hisar, confirmed the incident and said action will be taken against Phogat.
The BJP leader has also lodged a police complaint in which she maintained that Singh had used “indecent, derogatory language” towards her.
Sources in Hisar have been quoted as saying that Phogat, accompanied by 5-6 of her associates, had come to the grain market’s purchase centre and spoke to Singh about some issues when things got heated.
‘Will Manohar Lal Khattar take action?’
Phogat had contested the 2019 assembly elections from the Mandi Adampur district in Haryana. She lost to Congress candidate Kuldeep Bishnoi, son of former Haryana CM Bhajan Lal.
Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala also shared this video and asked what action Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar was planning against Phogat.
“The BJP committee of Adampur, Hisar, is beating the market committee secretary like animals. Is it a crime to do a government job? Will Khattar Saheb take action? Will the media still remain silent?” he tweeted.
खट्टर सरकार के नेताओं के घटिया कारनामे!
मार्किट कमेटी सचिव को जानवरों की तरह पीट रही हैं आदमपुर, हिसार की भाजपा नेत्री।
क्या सरकारी नौकरी करना अब अपराध है?
क्या खट्टर साहेब कार्यवाही करेंगे?
क्या मीडिया अब भी चुप रहेगा? pic.twitter.com/2K1aHbFo5l
— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) June 5, 2020
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Bizarrely, the pot-bellied policeman stands idly beside the BJP bitch and allows her to thrash the poor man. Clearly, he knows better than to take up cudgels against a ruling party apparatchik.
Welcome to Modistan.
If the man did use derogatory language, then he deserves what he got. But if the man did not use bad language, then no matter whatever his mistakes were, he does not deserve this and the lady should be punished.
Mr Gopal: You pontificate:
“If the man did use derogatory language, then he deserves what he got..”
Well, interesting that even educated people like you would want to take the law into their own hands. No wonder there has been a complete breakdown of law and order in the country, indeed worsening under the BJP. An allegation that someone has committed a crime or an offence does not necessarily mean that said event has occurred. And to move from allegations to immediate sentencing is something that strikes at the very roots of democracy.
During the Emergency that PM Indira Gandhi declared and ruled under from 1975 to 1977, precisely the same things happened. People disappeared, were tortured, sterilised against their consent or were locked up without recourse to due judicial processes. And there was one law for the powerful apparatchiks of the Congress and the another for the common man. And you see exactly that happening today under the Modi regime.
But what was interesting then was the attitude of the middle-classes. Indeed, the vast majority of the middle-classes like the autocratic methods of Sanjay Gandhi and his mother. “Democracy is too costly and cumbesrome for India. We need a benevloent dictator” was the phrase often heard in middle-class drawing rooms. And both then, as now, the “Encounter culture” prevailed in the police and laws only applied to the poor. And then as now, the middle-classes supported violence heaped upon the poor. Such as your support of the physical abuse of this hapless man.
Although you add the usual caveat and disclaimer that had the man been innocent, the lady should be punished, let me ask you a question Mr Gopal: Should the lady also get summarily beaten by a slipper or should due process be applied in her case?
Sadly, India’s descent into fascism is aided and abetted by educated people like you Mr Gopal. And one hopes that you don’t get hoisted by your own petard someday.
Chappal khaunga par vote Modi ko doonga. The Phogat sisters are true Ambassadors of BJP.