Some of the recent incidents in Maharashtra show that the government do not have a grip on the law and order situation in the state and that those in power have wrong priorities.

It was shocking to hear Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who also holds the home portfolio, state in the Legislative Assembly that the violence in Nagpur was pre-planned. If it was pre-planned, it shows the utter failure of the home ministry and the police in taking appropriate action to prevent the violence in a city that had remained protected from communal violence all these years.

In light of the hate speeches made by members of the Mahayuti, the ruling alliance in the state, including ministers, even a schoolchild could have said the violence was bound to erupt. The home ministry failed in Nagpur, just as it failed in Badlapur, Beed, Kolhapur, to name a few, to take appropriate and timely action. A similar failure was seen in Mumbai, where the police failed to protect the studio where stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra used to record his shows.

After the reaction of a section of the public against Kamra’s show, the police should have anticipated an attack on any or all his locations and should have taken steps to give them protective cover.

Kamra should be thankful to the nincompoops belonging to the Eknath Shinde Shiv Sena for carrying forward his........

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