Pilot says govt not letting him near protests

Dausa MP Sachin Pilot, who is in Jaipur, has accused the Rajasthan government of not letting him visit Sikandara that falls under his constituency. The Gurjjar leader has been visiting hospitals in the city where 14 victims of police firing on protestors are still awaiting postmortem. Pilot pointed out that because of the delay, the families had not been able to perform the last rites. He also claimed that most of the injured he had visited had bullet wounds on their backs, proving that they were innocents who had been fired at when they had had gone to help those injured. While emphasising that he objected to violence in any form, whether by the police or the protestors, Pilot added: “The state government, it appears, first fires at protestors, the administration then comes in and finally the political talks are initiated, while common sense says it should be the other way round.”