Egged on by Mishra’s words, a mob of Hindutva activists and lumpens attacked one of the sites of the anti-CAA protest in North-East Delhi. This was the ‘Salwa Judum’ model of vigilante violence imported to Delhi. An independent investigation will surely reveal the hidden hands involved in the mobilisation of the crowd because such mobs do not form spontaneously. Predictably, the protesters they viciously attacked – who had been sitting peacefully all the while – fought back. But there matters ought to have ended, if the Delhi police had done its job and the Union home minister Amit Shah, had done his.

Narendra Modi’s Reckless Politics Brings Mob Rule to New Delhi