One of the eyewitnesses to the 1980 Moradabad Riots, asserted that the violence was an obvious consequence of the vote bank and Muslim appeasement politics the then Congress government, both in the state and the centre, had been practising
Dayanand Gupta, one of the eyewitnesses of the 1980 Moradabad Riots, testified how during the violence the Muslim mob launched an unprovoked attack on the police officials and the members of the Valmiki Dalit community
The UP government recently tabled the inquiry report into the 1980 Moradabad riots that killed at least 83 people and left 112 others injured which revealed that Muslim League leaders had orchestrated the riots