A Man Burnt To Death, A House Demolished Spells Election Hazard For BJP
NDTV
A member of a community classified as an Other Backward Class or OBC, Rahul Yadav blamed the Brahmin family of the woman he was in love with in a cellphone video recorded before he died.
Two weeks after a man was burnt to death and the woman he loved taken to hospital with 60 per cent burns, the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh has found itself trying not to get singed by the flames of caste politics ahead of by-elections due later this month.
On September 16, late in the night, 25-year-old Rahul Yadav was allegedly set on fire in the Semra Leharia village in the Sagar district, around 170 km from Bhopal.
A member of a community classified as an Other Backward Class or OBC, he blamed the Brahmin family of the woman he was in love with in a cellphone video recorded before he died.
He named four people including the girl's father, her elder brother and two others. All four were arrested soon after and their house was demolished by authorities.
