Due to rioting, the Congress settled in Bihar...

S Venkateshwari
Due to rioting, the congress settled in Bihar...


The riots helped the bjp politically, but they also hurt the congress and other opposition parties. For instance, the congress party was totally destroyed in bihar following the riots in Bhagalpur. Following the Hashimpura riots, the UP party experienced the same predicament. The state was governed by congress at the time of these two uprisings. 2013's muzaffarnagar riots severely damaged the Samajwadi party, which was in power at the time. Following this, Western UP SP began to clear up.

The congress party recently had to bear the defeat caused by violence during the rajasthan assembly elections. The Rajasthani districts of Udaipur, Bhilwara, and jodhpur experienced the greatest levels of communal violence in 2022. elections for the assembly in 2023 also demonstrated its impact. In jodhpur, which is ashok Gehlot's home district, the congress lost eighty percent of its seats in 2023. The party was totally destroyed in Bhilwara.

In five years, the state of Muslims and communal violence

In response to a query in the rajya sabha in december 2022, the Union home Ministry stated that 2900 incidents of communal violence were registered between 2017 and 2021. The home Ministry reports that 2020 has seen the greatest number of incidents of communal violence. 723 incidents were reported in 2017, 512 in 2018, 438 in 2019, 857 in 2020, and 378 in 2021, according to the government. Hindu holidays have been associated with an increase in episodes of communal violence in recent years, according to a research by the international organization Human Rights Watch. Armed with a sense of political patronage, a courageous audience is responsible for this kind of violence.



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