If you want to shoot, shoot me", he said on Sunday.The Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav accused the PM of political opportunism. To protest the brutal incident, a week later, five Dalit youths in Gujarat tried to end their lives by drinking poison. "PM is looking for fake(cow protectors), I am telling him where real cow slaughterers are," Tiwari added in the Rajya Sabha. The victims' contention was that they were skinning a dead cow and had not killed it. "Now that he sees that it's going to cost him, then he brings the (dalit) issue to the forefront," said Akhilesh, Uttar Pradesh chief minister.

Source: Times of India August 11, 2016 14:50 UTC