PM is a sensitive person, people shouldn't judge him, says Siddharth Nath Singh

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Last Updated : Oct 07 2015 | 6:32 PM IST

Referring to Narendra Modi's silence on the Dadri lynching incident, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Siddharth Nath Singh on Wednesday said that Prime Minister is a sensitive person and people should not judge him with what he writes and doesn't write in social media.

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"The PM is a sensitive person he is seized with the matter. Do not judge him by what he write or doesn't write on the social media but what needs to be done by the central government you will never find the PM faulting," Singh said.

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"Every senior minister of the BJP, the Home Minister, the Finance Minister all have commented on it. The party time and again has commented on it. There has been already more than what have been required by the party is being done," he added.

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Last Monday, following the spread of a rumour that 50-year-old Mohammad Akhlaq and his family had consumed beef, a mob barged into their home and lynched Akhlaq to death. His 22-year-old son Danish was critically injured in the incident.

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First Published: Oct 07 2015 | 5:40 PM IST

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