The Minister said tension started with harassment of a village girl and was fuelled by an online video and inflammatory messages by political leaders.
"The people were agitated and they had no belief that police would take action. The political leaders started to take advantage of the situation by issuing inflammatory speeches. And those speeches were like non-bailable offence but police allowed them to continue," he said.
However, "when we tried to go there to restore peace and harmony, they didn't allow us," he said.
Muzaffarnagar: Stop violence from spreading, says Ajit Singh
New Delhi: Voicing concern over the Muzaffarnagar violence, Rashtriya Lok Dal leader and Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh today said it may spread to other states and become "unmanageable" if not controlled by "strict action"."Now
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