Muzaffarnagar riots: Congress attacks Akhilesh Yadav, Mulayam defends him
The government of Akhilesh Yadav, under attack for failing to check communal violence in Muzaffarnagar, cannot be faulted, said the young chief minister's father, Mulayam Singh Yadav, who also heads the Samajwadi Party. Mr Yadav said that the deadly violence, in which 36 people have died since Saturday, is being wrongly tagged as communal riots. Caste conflict is the correct descriptor, he said.
