“We voted for the BJP in 2017 (Uttar Pradesh elections) and 2019 (Lok Sabha elections) because it seemed to be a nationalist party...we have no problem with (PM Narendra) Modi-ji; our displeasure is with (CM) Yogi Adityanath because injustice was done to our sister in his regime,” said Ravi Kumar Valmiki, in a reference to the 2020 Hathras rape case where a Dalit minor was allegedly cremated in the night against her family’s wishes after she died in hospital.
Kumar, a 36-year-old sweeper, lives 7 km away from the girl’s residence in Mohalla Karr next to the Hathras railway station.
