Indian oppositions criticize gov't over attacks on low-caste people, Muslims

India's opposition parties Friday criticized the ruling BJP over increasing incidents of attacks on Muslims and low-caste people.

Condemning the attack upon two Muslim women in the central state Madhya Pradesh, the oppositions said at the Parliament that low-caste people and Muslims were being increasingly targeted by Hindu radicals, according to Press Trust of India.

Lawmakers from the Congress party also provided statistics to highlight attacks on dalits -- a low caste in India, while criticizing the government over the assault on two Muslim women in Mandsaur of Madhya Pradesh and one similar incident in the western state of Gujarat perpetrated by Hindu radicals.

Some low-caste people were publicly beaten up by Hindu radicals who make up "cow vigilante groups" imposing ban on the sale and killing of cows, considered holy by Hindu mythology, according to media reports.

Two low-caste people were killed recently in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, said media reports. Endit