Click to play videoMumbai: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has asked the Central Government to control the ongoing violence against North Indians in Maharashtra.
She also announced Rs 2 lakh as compensation for Uttar Pradesh youth Dharamdev Rai, who was beaten to death by a group of Marathi-speaking youth inside a Mumbai local train on Tuesday afternoon.
Samajwadi Party, too, seems keen to join hands with Mayawati on the North Indian versus Maharashtra divide.
Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh said that if the Bahujan Samaj Party chief agrees, then a joint delegation of UP politicians could meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue.
The BJP alleged the Central and Maharashtra governments, which are led by the Congress, had failed to handle the situation in Maharashtra. "Reactions expressed by Congress leaders, including deputy chief minister R R Patil show that they need mental treatment. The Central government, which has kept quiet, is also guilty," said BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
Meanwhile, 10 people have detained up by GRP from Khopoli for questioning.
The 25-year-old Rai was beaten up on board a local train from Khopoli to Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station.
Dharamdev Rai and three other labourers - Vijendra Rai (35), Satyaprakash Kaushal Rai and Shiv Kumar Verma (both 25) - from UP were on their way to Kurla on Tuesday afternoon when they were beaten up on the running train by 8-10 people.
Rai's friends have alleged that they were beaten by Marathi-speaking youth, after they learnt that the labourers were North Indians.
"After the train left the station, some people entered our compartment. They asked us where we were from. When they learnt we are from UP they made us sit separately. Then they first verbally abused us and then started beating us up," Dharamdev Rai's friend Virendra Kumar Rai claimed.
The youths started beating all the four as the train approached Karjat. While his friends managed to escape with minor injuries, Rai was beaten up brutally.
Rai was admitted to the Dubey hospital in Badlapur but succumbed to his injuries.
The incident happened at around 1412-1415 hrs IST on Tuesday and rain was declared dead on arrival at a hospital in Badlapur at about 1530 hrs IST.
The post-mortem report confirmed death due to puncturing of the liver at about 2200 hrs IST.
Rai, who hails from Sant Kabir Nagar in Faizabad in UP, had been working in Mumbai for the past few months.
Government Railway Police (GRP) Commissioner AK Sharma told CNN-IBN that a case has been registered for murder and rioting.
"Post-mortem report confirmed that he was beaten up. He died because of injuries to his liver," Sharma said.
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