Haryana violence done to divert people's attention from Manipur: Congress leader

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Congress leader Udit Raj on Saturday hit out at the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Haryana government and claimed that the party is doing an "experiment" in the north because of which the violence in Haryana's Nuh and Gurugram took place...

The former MP claimed that this was done to divert people's attention from the ongoing violence in Manipur..

Udit Raj's remarks came in response to Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij's claims that the violence in Nuh was pre-planned...

Anil Vij had earlier said that the way bullets were fired from hillocks and stones were collected on rooftops of buildings indicates that the Nuh violence was pre-planned...

Six people, including two home guards and a cleric, died in the communal clashes that erupted in Nuh when a Vishva Hindu Parishad procession was attacked by mobs on Monday.. Earlier, opposition parties in Haryana have alleged that the violence was the result of the failure of the BJP-JJP government..

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