NEW DELHI – Indian Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar on Friday said if it doesnot act against those guilty of the Pune violence, “no one will be able tostop Hafiz Saeeds from being born among the Hindus”.

“If you want to stop this, then act against those guilty of the violence,”he said at a rally of opposition parties called by the Akhil BharatiyaMahatma Phule Samta Parishad here.

Ambedkar, who is the grandson of Indian Constitution’s architect B.R.Ambedkar and had called Wednesday’s Maharashtra shutdown against casteviolence on January 1, accused the Maharashtra Police of tormenting thevictims instead of acting against the perpetrators of the violence.

He alleged this was being done at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s behest.Calling for a social democracy, he asked all deprived and backward sectionsto unite for securing their rights.

Expelled Janata Dal-United leader Sharad Yadav, who also attended therally, said the condition of the country was alarming and urged the lowcaste to unitedly take on the fundamentalists.

“The question is aren’t low castes Hindu too? Why should Hindufundamentalists attack them,” he asked, adding that when the regimesupports the guilty, who can hold them accountable.

“That is why I say the situation in the country is alarming.”

Many other opposition leaders, including Congress state President ArunYadav, were at the rally.

On January 1, violence erupted between two groups in Bhima-Koregaon of Puneduring the 200th anniversary celebrations of the Anglo-Maratha War of 1818.A youth was killed in the riots.