Fifty five Dalit houses were burnt down during the afternoon of May 5 [2017] in
Shabbirpur village of Saharanpur in northern UP. Attackers belonged to
the dominant Rajput community of the area. They were armed with swords,
spears, and lathis, and numbered about three thousand. [. . .]
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May 07, 2017
India: Violence In UP’s Saharanpur - Clashes breaks out over Maharana Pratap birth anniversary parade, barely a fortnight after similar clashes during Ambedkar Jayanti procession
One dead, 25 houses torched as Thakurs, Dalits clash in UP’s Saharanpur
Violence breaks out over Maharana Pratap birth anniversary parade,
barely a fortnight after similar clashes during Ambedkar Jayanti
procession.
Updated: May 05, 2017 22:03 IST
HT correspondent
Lucknow, Hindustan Times
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/one-dead-25-houses-torched-as-thakurs-dalits-clash-in-up-s-saharanpur/story-5u5NBXaVnd3jA2zm9jC2XM.html
Violence breaks out over Maharana Pratap birth anniversary parade,
barely a fortnight after similar clashes during Ambedkar Jayanti
procession.
Updated: May 05, 2017 22:03 IST
HT correspondent
Lucknow, Hindustan Times
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/one-dead-25-houses-torched-as-thakurs-dalits-clash-in-up-s-saharanpur/story-5u5NBXaVnd3jA2zm9jC2XM.html
August 17, 2014
UP committee the communal violence in Saharanpur point to administrative lapses and India's ruling party BJPs role
A five-member committee headed by UP minister Shivpal Yadav, which probed the communal violence in Saharanpur that left three persons dead, has blamed administrative lapses for the incident and questioned the role of BJP.
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/saharanpur-riots-report-committee-questions-role-of-bjp/
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/saharanpur-riots-report-committee-questions-role-of-bjp/
August 10, 2014
India: Baba Rijakdas Hindu kanya protection expert | Vasudha Venugopal
The Times of India (Delhi), August 10 2014
The monk who sold a love 'cure'
Vasudha Venugopal
Armed with peacock feathers and blessed water, a Saharanpur godman is on a love jihad to `save' Hindu girls
In riot-hit Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, it’s important to read the writing on the wall. On an old building near the railway station is scrawled, ‘Dharam bechne ka paap na kare.’ {"Don't commit the sin of converting."} Barely a kilometre away, the portly Baba Rijakdas reiterates the warning. “Young Hindu girls get easily carried away by Muslim boys here. They don’t understand they are being exploited,” he claims.
Rijakdas’ disciples revere him for his ‘expertise’ in ‘rescuing’ Hindu women. People flock to Saharanpur’s court area in large numbers to hear him talk about how girls of a certain age need to be controlled and how TV and internet are only doing harm to society. Seated on his gaddi, he tells a college girl who is accused of riding pillion with a Muslim boy twice, “Today you will be happy but tomorrow when he leaves you alone with three children, you will end up with no other option but to commit suicide.”
While there are other babas in the vicinity who offer similar ‘cures’, none have been as successful as Rijakdas, who has allegedly ‘cured’ over 200 girls in Saharanpur alone and over 500 in neighbouring Muzaffarnagar and Shamli. His ‘love jihad’ treatment has various levels depending on the ‘patient’. “It is no different from medical treatment,” he claims, adding, “It takes time but it uproots all feelings.” Women caught in a nascent stage of an affair with an ineligible youth are asked to come to the ashram with their parents for a month to listen to religious lectures. Those who refuse to give up their relationship are stroked with peacock feathers; if they still persist they are made to drink a bottle of water prepared by the Baba after a night of tapasya. Those who disobey him are sent to NGOs run allegedly by political leaders and kept there for months.
Disciple Suresh Sharma says Baba Rijakdas uses his expertise in tantra vidya only for a “good cause”. “Baba uses the power of mantras as much as possible, and only when the girl refuses the water does he employ his prowess in tantra,” he claims. Baba does not charge money for this ‘service’, but is gifted fruits, silver heirlooms and gold biscuits. His method takes five to six months to bear fruit, he claims. “But these women return to their families and never again gone astray,” he proudly claims.
How Baba came to become a community ‘saviour’ is another tale. His devotees claim that three years ago, Baba had brain haemorrhage and was in coma for many days. “But he magically sprang to life,” his disciple Ratnakar says. Often in the midst of discourse, the 61-year-old Baba diverts to his own story. “When I was just a month old, my mother gave me to a guru she believed in. I have grown up under his patronage,” he says, revealing little else.
The Hindu women of Saharanpur have little to say about Baba’s charms. At businessman Mohit Tandon’s home, his daughters Preeti and Shyama turn away when their father praises him. “I am a postgraduate but my father doesn’t let me work. Mobile phones are monitored by parents. They think we can easily be influenced by anybody,” says Preeti.
A 21-year-old who requested anonymity recalls her experience of being ‘treated’. “There is no use of fighting because the entire community gets together and pressurizes you,” she says. “I hated being at the NGO. I promised to forget my boyfriend so that I could be sent home.” Professor Rooprekha Verma, founder secretary of Sajhi Duniya, a UP-based NGO that promotes women’s rights and secularism and has run campaigns to protest similar superstitious activities in the past, says, “Such lumpen elements in society sharpen communal feelings and divide people. It is unfortunate that there is no clear message from the government denouncing such activities.” But Baba remains unfazed. “It is for the families and the welfare of the Hindu community that I am doing this. The protection of the Hindu kanya is very important,” he adds.
KERALA, WHERE THE LOVE JIHAD BEGAN
It started with a few posters in the northern districts of Kerala warning of the “evil designs“ of Muslim terrorists who would feign love for Hindu girls and convert them to Islam and their cause. The word `love jihad' was coined, and became one of the most-discussed topics in Kerala around 2009.
The conspiracy theory actually resulted in a court case. The parents of two Kochi girls, both MBA students, filed habeas corpus in Kerala High Court alleging that their daughters were trapped into relationships by two Muslim young men, Shahansha and Sirajudeen, with the intent to convert them. In 2010, the court quashed the case against Shahansha and Sirajudeen, pointing out that it specifically targeted a community. It was, the judge pointed out, quite normal for boys and girls from different religions to fall in love.
However, the allegations continued to do the rounds. The Hindu Aikya Vedi started a helpline to take calls from “victims“and it even alleged a ‘clinical jihad’ -as per this theory Muslim doctors were prescribing “wrong or expensive” medicines to Hindu patients. Today, the whole campaign has died down except when it is whipped up by the VHP at various public meetings.
Prashanth.MP@timesgroup.com
The monk who sold a love 'cure'
Vasudha Venugopal
Armed with peacock feathers and blessed water, a Saharanpur godman is on a love jihad to `save' Hindu girls
In riot-hit Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, it’s important to read the writing on the wall. On an old building near the railway station is scrawled, ‘Dharam bechne ka paap na kare.’ {"Don't commit the sin of converting."} Barely a kilometre away, the portly Baba Rijakdas reiterates the warning. “Young Hindu girls get easily carried away by Muslim boys here. They don’t understand they are being exploited,” he claims.
Rijakdas’ disciples revere him for his ‘expertise’ in ‘rescuing’ Hindu women. People flock to Saharanpur’s court area in large numbers to hear him talk about how girls of a certain age need to be controlled and how TV and internet are only doing harm to society. Seated on his gaddi, he tells a college girl who is accused of riding pillion with a Muslim boy twice, “Today you will be happy but tomorrow when he leaves you alone with three children, you will end up with no other option but to commit suicide.”
While there are other babas in the vicinity who offer similar ‘cures’, none have been as successful as Rijakdas, who has allegedly ‘cured’ over 200 girls in Saharanpur alone and over 500 in neighbouring Muzaffarnagar and Shamli. His ‘love jihad’ treatment has various levels depending on the ‘patient’. “It is no different from medical treatment,” he claims, adding, “It takes time but it uproots all feelings.” Women caught in a nascent stage of an affair with an ineligible youth are asked to come to the ashram with their parents for a month to listen to religious lectures. Those who refuse to give up their relationship are stroked with peacock feathers; if they still persist they are made to drink a bottle of water prepared by the Baba after a night of tapasya. Those who disobey him are sent to NGOs run allegedly by political leaders and kept there for months.
Disciple Suresh Sharma says Baba Rijakdas uses his expertise in tantra vidya only for a “good cause”. “Baba uses the power of mantras as much as possible, and only when the girl refuses the water does he employ his prowess in tantra,” he claims. Baba does not charge money for this ‘service’, but is gifted fruits, silver heirlooms and gold biscuits. His method takes five to six months to bear fruit, he claims. “But these women return to their families and never again gone astray,” he proudly claims.
How Baba came to become a community ‘saviour’ is another tale. His devotees claim that three years ago, Baba had brain haemorrhage and was in coma for many days. “But he magically sprang to life,” his disciple Ratnakar says. Often in the midst of discourse, the 61-year-old Baba diverts to his own story. “When I was just a month old, my mother gave me to a guru she believed in. I have grown up under his patronage,” he says, revealing little else.
The Hindu women of Saharanpur have little to say about Baba’s charms. At businessman Mohit Tandon’s home, his daughters Preeti and Shyama turn away when their father praises him. “I am a postgraduate but my father doesn’t let me work. Mobile phones are monitored by parents. They think we can easily be influenced by anybody,” says Preeti.
A 21-year-old who requested anonymity recalls her experience of being ‘treated’. “There is no use of fighting because the entire community gets together and pressurizes you,” she says. “I hated being at the NGO. I promised to forget my boyfriend so that I could be sent home.” Professor Rooprekha Verma, founder secretary of Sajhi Duniya, a UP-based NGO that promotes women’s rights and secularism and has run campaigns to protest similar superstitious activities in the past, says, “Such lumpen elements in society sharpen communal feelings and divide people. It is unfortunate that there is no clear message from the government denouncing such activities.” But Baba remains unfazed. “It is for the families and the welfare of the Hindu community that I am doing this. The protection of the Hindu kanya is very important,” he adds.
KERALA, WHERE THE LOVE JIHAD BEGAN
It started with a few posters in the northern districts of Kerala warning of the “evil designs“ of Muslim terrorists who would feign love for Hindu girls and convert them to Islam and their cause. The word `love jihad' was coined, and became one of the most-discussed topics in Kerala around 2009.
The conspiracy theory actually resulted in a court case. The parents of two Kochi girls, both MBA students, filed habeas corpus in Kerala High Court alleging that their daughters were trapped into relationships by two Muslim young men, Shahansha and Sirajudeen, with the intent to convert them. In 2010, the court quashed the case against Shahansha and Sirajudeen, pointing out that it specifically targeted a community. It was, the judge pointed out, quite normal for boys and girls from different religions to fall in love.
However, the allegations continued to do the rounds. The Hindu Aikya Vedi started a helpline to take calls from “victims“and it even alleged a ‘clinical jihad’ -as per this theory Muslim doctors were prescribing “wrong or expensive” medicines to Hindu patients. Today, the whole campaign has died down except when it is whipped up by the VHP at various public meetings.
Prashanth.MP@timesgroup.com
August 06, 2014
Express investigation part-II: My loudspeaker versus your loudspeaker | Appu Esthose Suresh
A temple and a mosque in Nehtaur, Bijnor, each with its own
loudspeaker. There was a communal incident in the town on July 23.
(Source: Express Photo by Oinam Anand) Summary
That’s the spark in more than a quarter of the estimated 400 communal incidents since May 16 in 12 bypoll areas in UP.
Related
— Message sent out on WhatsApp, allegedly by Vijay Kumar Mittal, head of the Bageshwar temple committee in Saharanpur.
On July 23, four days before riots broke out between Sikhs and Muslims in Saharanpur city, nearly 2,500 Hindus answered the message, gathering quickly at Kothwai Nagar, 5 km outside the city. On the previous night (July 22), loudspeakers at the temple had blared Shiv Katha, disturbing scores of Muslims at their night-time Ramzan namaaz. Some 300 Muslim families live in the Hindu-dominated area, and an argument broke out between the two communities on Behat Road before the police were called in. The night passed peacefully, but the next morning, the WhatsApp message went out.
On the same day, in Nehtaur in adjoining Bijnor district, two Muslim men attacked a Hindu pandit called Rajesh Singh Saini with a knife. Saini’s temple is in the predominantly Muslim neighbourhood of Holiyan, and residents of the area had objected to the volume of the temple’s loudspeaker. The local police shrugged off the attack as the result of personal enmity between Saini and someone called Salim. But a full week after the incident, The Indian Express observed five armed policemen still patrolling the area.
In the 10 weeks after May 16, when the new government took over in Delhi, police in Uttar Pradesh recorded 605 incidents of “communal” nature, two-thirds of them in and around 12 assembly constituencies headed to bypolls. In this communal tinderbox, the humble loudspeaker emerged as a potent catalyst for tensions.
Traditionally used for propaganda, provocation and posturing, the loudspeaker was transformed into an effective instrument of polarisation. Police records of over 600 communal incidents during this period scrutinised by The Indian Express show some 120 of them were triggered by the use of loudspeakers at places of worship — the largest contributor, alongside construction activities involving masjids, madrasas and kabristans, to tensions.
Ten incidents occurred in Muzaffarnagar; nine each in the districts of Bijnor, Meerut and Moradabad. Loudspeakers triggered eight incidents each in Amroha and Saharanpur; seven each in Sambal and Bareilly; and six in Shamli. Five incidents each were witnessed in Baghpat, Rampur, Bahraich and Balrampur.
The incidents spiked sharply after June 16, when \Hindu mobs poured out on the streets of Kant, Moradabad, after a newly installed loudspeaker at a Dalit temple was removed.
Between May 16 and June 16, only 17 incidents were recorded — all but one of which were in the western UP districts of Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Amroha, Sambhal and Moradabad. After June 16, however, and especially after Ramzan began on June 30, there was a spurt in communal incidents, which also spread rapidly eastward.
In nearly all of these 120 cases, a familiar pattern was seen: temple loudspeakers competed with loudspeakers of the azaan; and a new and aggressive Hindu insistence on the right to use loudspeakers triggered Muslim reaction.
OUTSIDERS, RUMOUR, DENIAL
Vijay Kumar Mittal of Saharanpur’s Bageshwar temple committee — also an activist of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad — denied having sent the WhatsApp message that, besides exhorting Hindus to “unite”, contained several offensive references to Muslims. Police are yet to establish where the message originated.
Eyewitness accounts of Muslims, corroborated by police officials, suggest that the majority among the 2,500-strong Hindu mob that gathered at the temple were outsiders. Said a Muslim man in Saharanpur who identified himself as Nazir, “We have never had such problems in the past. If it (the loudspeaker) was loud, we would request that the volume be turned down, and the pujari would oblige. But this Ramzan, it was impossible to conduct our prayers.
“We informed administration officials because we did not want conflict. But an agitating mob showed up the next day. There were very few locals in that mob. I don’t know what would have happened had the administration not intervened.”
Nazir was among members of the community who gathered for afternoon prayers not far from Bageshwar temple amid curfew in Saharanpur.
Kapil Mishra, a member of the Bageshwar temple committee, said, “The loudspeaker will remain where it is, and the Shiv Katha will continue. The temple uses loudspeakers only occasionally. What about the masjid? Their radio (loudspeaker) blares throughout the year. Have we ever objected?”
Assembled inside the temple, Mishra and other members of the temple committee described an alleged attack by Muslims on a priest. “Muslims attacked the pandit of the Shankaracharya temple and injured him. This is what is happening to us wherever the Mohammedans are in a position of strength,” they said.
However, the local police station has no record of any such attack. About the July 23 incident, Kothwai Nagar police have recorded in the station registry that following rumours of a loudspeaker being removed in Bageshwar temple, both communities had gathered on the main road, but the district administration had settled the matter and urged both sides to maintain peace.
At Muzaffarnagar, Balraj Singh, the Bajrang Dal’s regional coordinator for western UP, told The Indian Express: “Why do Muslims object to mandirs using loudspeakers? They don’t want Hindus to express themselves. They want to subjugate us. We are being denied the right that they enjoy. That is why they are making an issue out of mandirs using loudspeakers.”
Balraj Singh said he had just returned from clamped-down Saharanpur.
POLITICIANS’ OPPORTUNITY
At 7 pm on July 23, barely half an hour after the knifing of priest Rajesh Singh Saini in Nehtaur, Bijnor, Karan Singh Saini, the BJP’s Nehtaur in-charge, arrived at the local police station along with 200 others. Gathering the crowd had been easy, he said, because everyone knew pressing charges against Muslims would be difficult.
“The news spread to nearby areas, and we decided to meet at the police station. We knew it would be difficult to press charges against a Muslim because the Samajwadi Party government patronises Muslims,” Karan Singh Saini said.
Soon afterward, a “Muslim” delegation led by the SP’s local unit in-charge arrived at the police station, seeking an “amicable” compromise. Police, however, charged both groups, much to the dismay of the Hindu population in the area. The station registry recorded that the incident involved two individuals of the Hindu and Muslim community, both of whom were under the influence of alcohol, and that an FIR had been registered.
Later, standing in the one-room home where Rajesh Saini is recovering from his injuries, a neighbour said, “The SP government patronises them (Muslims). We are the victims, but get charged.”
Everyone in the room agreed, and several people recounted incidents of attacks on priests during Ramzan. The Indian Express could not confirm any of these incidents. The police have no record of such attacks.
(All Photos by Oinam Anand)
source URL: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/uttar-pradesh/express-investigation-part-ii-my-loudspeaker-versus-your-loudspeaker/
August 01, 2014
Modi and Hindutva footprints - Editorial, Kashmir Times
Kashmir Times - Monday, July 28, 2014
Editorial: Modi and Hindutva footprints
Saffronising education, patronising Hindutva elements will only marginalise secular forces in the country
After demanding ban on bikinis along Goa beaches and end to the tourist destination’s pubs, BJP ally and Goa minister, Deepak Dhavalikar has stirred yet another controversy by expressing hope that prime minister Narendra Modi will develop India into a ‘Hindu nation’. Much as this assertion triggers fears of subversion of the secular fabric of this country, it may well be true. The turn of events in Uttar Pradesh-from Moradabad to Saharanpur, clearly show the path Modi government is taking. Communal violence has preceded the Moradabad and Saharanpur affairs with unprovoked violence in Pune and Meerut. The BJP led NDA government is marching ahead and working overtime in increasing the footprints of Hindutva by saffronising education. After the union human resource development minister Smriti Irani spoke of introduction of ancient religious texts in school education with an aim to instill Hindu pride and Hindu chauvinism in the garb of instilling patriotism, the BJP government has raked up controversies regarding making Hindi mandatory and Sanskrisitisng school curriculum. An RSS symathiser now heads the ICHR with an obvious aim to rewrite the Indian history. RSS ideologue Dinanath Batra’s writings have been included as supplementary reading for school children in Gujarat. A Shiv Sena MP forcefully fed rotis to a fasting Muslim employee to “teach him a lesson” and tennis star Sania Mirza’s appointment as brand ambassador of Telengana has been opposed on grounds that not only reflect a communal streak but also an evident gender bias. All these incidents in a span of two months are enough to reveal a pre-meditated and systemic ways of pursuing the Hindutva agenda.
After loose cannons like Subramaniam Swami churning his hate rhetoric have been ignored, there is absolute silence on the utterances of VHP leaders. Its supremo Ashok Singhal has also called Modi “an ideal swayamsevak” and emphatically declared that Muslims must respect the sentiments of the Hindu culture, threatening that “they cannot survive for long by opposing Hindus”. He has also given up their claims on Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi, which is nothing short of the dream of the RSS to reduce Muslims to second class citizens with no privileges and rights. Another firebrand VHP leader Pravin Togadia, known for his hate speeches, has endorsed these views by issuing a warning to the Muslims, saying they may have forgotten the 2002 Gujarat riots but would remember the Muzaffarnagar riots of last year. The intimidation came close on the heels of the Baltal violence that ensued when a Kashmiri ponywalla was stabbed by two men from Punjab volunteering for a community kitchen on Amarnath yatra route triggering protests. The clash and the aftermath reveals the ugly offshoots of saffronisation of institutions with CRPF butting in to go on a rampage, injuring two dozen people and army coming out with a statement that it has been tasked to protect the yatris and would make all out efforts to do so, without even a whimper about the local Kashmiri who had been slayed without the cover of protection. Far from Modi government expressing concern over the killing, the BJP leaders and their saffron allies have chosen to speak from a victim’s mindset and talking of the perils the Amarnath pilgrims are exposed to and completely blaming the Muslims.
Such overt and covert ways of fanning divisive and communal fires, or abject silence over these, well demonstrate that the ugly fangs of prejudice, hatred and fascism may out sooner than anyone thought. Modi’s communal past, despite crores of money pumped in for his image makeover and projection as pro-development and pro-modernity, is difficult to forget, especially in light of the saffron slogans he subtly continued to raise even during his recent election campaign. It will be clearer in days to come whether the increasing incidents are isolated aberrations or part of a larger design. If that is not the case, the prime minister should speak up and allay the fears sparked by the rhetoric of his party men and allies. Why should the man, who roared before the elections subject himself to timid silence now?
Editorial: Modi and Hindutva footprints
Saffronising education, patronising Hindutva elements will only marginalise secular forces in the country
After demanding ban on bikinis along Goa beaches and end to the tourist destination’s pubs, BJP ally and Goa minister, Deepak Dhavalikar has stirred yet another controversy by expressing hope that prime minister Narendra Modi will develop India into a ‘Hindu nation’. Much as this assertion triggers fears of subversion of the secular fabric of this country, it may well be true. The turn of events in Uttar Pradesh-from Moradabad to Saharanpur, clearly show the path Modi government is taking. Communal violence has preceded the Moradabad and Saharanpur affairs with unprovoked violence in Pune and Meerut. The BJP led NDA government is marching ahead and working overtime in increasing the footprints of Hindutva by saffronising education. After the union human resource development minister Smriti Irani spoke of introduction of ancient religious texts in school education with an aim to instill Hindu pride and Hindu chauvinism in the garb of instilling patriotism, the BJP government has raked up controversies regarding making Hindi mandatory and Sanskrisitisng school curriculum. An RSS symathiser now heads the ICHR with an obvious aim to rewrite the Indian history. RSS ideologue Dinanath Batra’s writings have been included as supplementary reading for school children in Gujarat. A Shiv Sena MP forcefully fed rotis to a fasting Muslim employee to “teach him a lesson” and tennis star Sania Mirza’s appointment as brand ambassador of Telengana has been opposed on grounds that not only reflect a communal streak but also an evident gender bias. All these incidents in a span of two months are enough to reveal a pre-meditated and systemic ways of pursuing the Hindutva agenda.
After loose cannons like Subramaniam Swami churning his hate rhetoric have been ignored, there is absolute silence on the utterances of VHP leaders. Its supremo Ashok Singhal has also called Modi “an ideal swayamsevak” and emphatically declared that Muslims must respect the sentiments of the Hindu culture, threatening that “they cannot survive for long by opposing Hindus”. He has also given up their claims on Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi, which is nothing short of the dream of the RSS to reduce Muslims to second class citizens with no privileges and rights. Another firebrand VHP leader Pravin Togadia, known for his hate speeches, has endorsed these views by issuing a warning to the Muslims, saying they may have forgotten the 2002 Gujarat riots but would remember the Muzaffarnagar riots of last year. The intimidation came close on the heels of the Baltal violence that ensued when a Kashmiri ponywalla was stabbed by two men from Punjab volunteering for a community kitchen on Amarnath yatra route triggering protests. The clash and the aftermath reveals the ugly offshoots of saffronisation of institutions with CRPF butting in to go on a rampage, injuring two dozen people and army coming out with a statement that it has been tasked to protect the yatris and would make all out efforts to do so, without even a whimper about the local Kashmiri who had been slayed without the cover of protection. Far from Modi government expressing concern over the killing, the BJP leaders and their saffron allies have chosen to speak from a victim’s mindset and talking of the perils the Amarnath pilgrims are exposed to and completely blaming the Muslims.
Such overt and covert ways of fanning divisive and communal fires, or abject silence over these, well demonstrate that the ugly fangs of prejudice, hatred and fascism may out sooner than anyone thought. Modi’s communal past, despite crores of money pumped in for his image makeover and projection as pro-development and pro-modernity, is difficult to forget, especially in light of the saffron slogans he subtly continued to raise even during his recent election campaign. It will be clearer in days to come whether the increasing incidents are isolated aberrations or part of a larger design. If that is not the case, the prime minister should speak up and allay the fears sparked by the rhetoric of his party men and allies. Why should the man, who roared before the elections subject himself to timid silence now?
July 30, 2014
India: UP Saharanpur clashes indicate meticulous planning
Mail Today - 30 July 2014
UP cops say riot was well - planned
By Piyush Srivastava in Saharanpur
CERTAIN aspects of the Saharanpur clashes indicate meticulous planning by the rioters who had a singular agenda of dividing the Sikhs and Muslims in the western Uttar Pradesh district.
IG, Meerut Zone, Alok Sharma confirmed that the clashes were pre- planned”. “ The riot was preplanned.
The way the firing was done and shops were burnt indicate many possibilities... We are investigating all angles,” he said.
The role of the civil and police administration is also under the scanner as the armed rioters had a free hand for nine hours till 4 pm on Saturday before the lathi- wielding policemen dispersed the mob.
ADG, Telecom, Devendra Singh Chauhan admitted that the local administration could have prevented the riots if decisions were taken promptly. “ The district magistrate and the senior superintendent of police are expected to take prompt decisions in such situation.
The violence could have been averted if action was initiated at the proper time,” Chauhan, who has been sent to Saharanpur as special observer, said.
The ADG said the rioters have been identified and police teams have been constituted to arrest them. The culprits will be booked under the stringent National Security Act, Chauhan added.
The rioters had a well- chalked plan as they first set ablaze the firebrigade office and fire tenders, crippling the department from carrying out any relief work. They then carried out looting and arson at the Ambala Road.
“ Some rioters were lighting Molotov cocktails and throwing them inside the shops. Despite repeated requests to impose curfew in the the police kept saying till 4 pm that they didn't receive any order stop the people from gathering.
Over 4,000 people had assembled Ambala Road by 10 am. They were increasingly getting violent,” cloth trader Harvinder Singh, whose shop was torched, claimed.
Interestingly, the disputed plot never a major issue for the two communities until recently. The Sikhs claimed the Muslims had claimed their rights over the plot after they bought it four years ago.
Though the Muslims claimed that plot was a Waqf property, they could not prove the same in a minority commission.
Later, they had withdrawn their claim over the plot and it was finally handed over to the Sikhs. Since then, it was a non- issue for the two communities. The construction work was started there a year ago without any opposition from the other side, the Sikh community claimed. But all of a sudden, some people objected to the construction by Sri Guru Singh Sabha and violence erupted on Saturday.
Locals also claimed that some motorcycle- borne masked men were indiscriminately firing at whosoever standing on their way, suggesting that they wanted to spread terror among the people for stopping construction at the plot.
“ We saw two masked men on a motorcycle who were firing at the passers- by in Ghantaghar area,” Sanjeev Bhandari, whose shop was set on fire at Ambala Road, said.
Prior to the clashes on Saturday, Saharanpur had last witnessed communal violence in December 1992 when the Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya.
UP cops say riot was well - planned
By Piyush Srivastava in Saharanpur
CERTAIN aspects of the Saharanpur clashes indicate meticulous planning by the rioters who had a singular agenda of dividing the Sikhs and Muslims in the western Uttar Pradesh district.
IG, Meerut Zone, Alok Sharma confirmed that the clashes were pre- planned”. “ The riot was preplanned.
The way the firing was done and shops were burnt indicate many possibilities... We are investigating all angles,” he said.
The role of the civil and police administration is also under the scanner as the armed rioters had a free hand for nine hours till 4 pm on Saturday before the lathi- wielding policemen dispersed the mob.
ADG, Telecom, Devendra Singh Chauhan admitted that the local administration could have prevented the riots if decisions were taken promptly. “ The district magistrate and the senior superintendent of police are expected to take prompt decisions in such situation.
The violence could have been averted if action was initiated at the proper time,” Chauhan, who has been sent to Saharanpur as special observer, said.
The ADG said the rioters have been identified and police teams have been constituted to arrest them. The culprits will be booked under the stringent National Security Act, Chauhan added.
The rioters had a well- chalked plan as they first set ablaze the firebrigade office and fire tenders, crippling the department from carrying out any relief work. They then carried out looting and arson at the Ambala Road.
“ Some rioters were lighting Molotov cocktails and throwing them inside the shops. Despite repeated requests to impose curfew in the the police kept saying till 4 pm that they didn't receive any order stop the people from gathering.
Over 4,000 people had assembled Ambala Road by 10 am. They were increasingly getting violent,” cloth trader Harvinder Singh, whose shop was torched, claimed.
Interestingly, the disputed plot never a major issue for the two communities until recently. The Sikhs claimed the Muslims had claimed their rights over the plot after they bought it four years ago.
Though the Muslims claimed that plot was a Waqf property, they could not prove the same in a minority commission.
Later, they had withdrawn their claim over the plot and it was finally handed over to the Sikhs. Since then, it was a non- issue for the two communities. The construction work was started there a year ago without any opposition from the other side, the Sikh community claimed. But all of a sudden, some people objected to the construction by Sri Guru Singh Sabha and violence erupted on Saturday.
Locals also claimed that some motorcycle- borne masked men were indiscriminately firing at whosoever standing on their way, suggesting that they wanted to spread terror among the people for stopping construction at the plot.
“ We saw two masked men on a motorcycle who were firing at the passers- by in Ghantaghar area,” Sanjeev Bhandari, whose shop was set on fire at Ambala Road, said.
Prior to the clashes on Saturday, Saharanpur had last witnessed communal violence in December 1992 when the Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya.
July 28, 2014
In UP’s restive towns, communal polarisation may be a sure-fire formula for electoral success
The Telegraph, 28 July 2014
In UP’s restive towns, a usual suspect called poll
IMRAN AHMED SIDDIQUI
Moradabad/Saharanpur, July 27: Moradabad and Saharanpur are 140km apart but united by two common features: upcoming polls and communal tension. It’s an association of factors that is taking on the shape of a trend in western Uttar Pradesh, especially since the Muzaffarnagar riots last September in the run-up to this summer’s general election when the BJP swept the state.
Saharanpur City as well as Thakundara in Moradabad will vote in next month’s Assembly by-elections, having fallen vacant after their representatives were elected to the Lok Sabha in May. The vote comes at a time sections of the political spectrum seem to have drawn mainly one lesson from Muzaffarnagar: that a communal polarisation may be a sure-fire formula for electoral success.
Communal clashes over a disputed plot killed three people and injured 27 in Saharanpur on Saturday, but local people and police were all agreed that the real “plot” was not a patch of land. “The real issue is the polls. That’s why the political parties are again busy igniting communal passions - it’s all for electoral gain,” said a senior officer in Moradabad, one among several sent from Lucknow to control the situation. “We saw it before the Lok Sabha elections too.”
Residents said the communal situation in Saharanpur had been tense since July 4, when protesters attacked the police in Moradabad’s Kanth area after district authorities removed a temple loudspeaker from Akbar Chedri village. Reports said Muslims had protested the constant use of the loudspeaker, donated by local BJP Lok Sabha member Kunwar Sarvesh, during Ramazan prayers.
A preliminary police probe has suggested that both BJP and Congress leaders instigated people in Saharanpur, precipitating Saturday’s violence, a senior officer said. Two communities claim ownership of the disputed plot, located next to a gurdwara in the Kutubsher area, about 180km from Delhi. The clashes began after a group of people began construction on the land in the early hours of Saturday.
Both the police and residents accuse local Congress leader Imran Masood and BJP Lok Sabha member Raghav Lakhanpal of playing key roles in worsening the situation. Masood had been in the news during the Lok Sabha poll campaign, having allegedly threatened to chop Narendra Modi into pieces in a speech. He fought the election on a Congress ticket but lost to Lakhanpal.
“We have ordered a probe and will file cases soon against political leaders for inciting violence,” the senior officer said. Over 20 people have been arrested. Curfew and shoot-at-sight orders remained in force on Sunday in six areas in Saharanpur. “The situation is better than yesterday,” district magistrate Sandhya Tiwari said.
While Saharanpur has grabbed the latest headlines, Moradabad continues to simmer too — with a lot of help from most of the state’s major political players. Mohammed Ghulfam, a maulvi in the Muslim-majority village of Akbarpur Chedri, the epicentre, said: “We are living in constant fear. A riot can break out any time.”
Yesterday, the police prevented leaders from the BJP, Congress and the state’s ruling Samajwadi Party from holding “peace rallies” over the July 4 violence. Each side in the political battle has been accusing the other of trying to polarise voters at its rallies.
“Both the BJP and the Congress-Samajwadis are trying their best to keep the issue alive for electoral gain,” a district official in Moradabad said. “We have imposed Section 144 (which prohibits the assembly of more than five people) in Moradabad.” Both Muslims and Hindus in Akbarpur Chedri said they had lived in amity before. “We participated in each other’s festivals and always helped one another. We exchanged gifts and sweets during Id,” said a man named Lakshman. “Now love has turned to hatred. We’ve stopped talking to each other.” “When Sarvesh asked us to install the loudspeaker inside the temple for puja, the Muslims objected,” said Radhesyam, a man from the village who works as a labourer in Delhi.
The Muslims in the village said the loudspeaker was a ploy to sow communal tension during the month of Ramazan when the community holds special prayers at night. “The temple had never had a loudspeaker since it was built 45 years ago,” said Mohammed Ashraf, a local trader. Apparently, the temple hired a loudspeaker once a year, during Shivaratri. The July 4 violence occurred after the police prevented BJP leaders, including four MPs, from reaching the area for a mahapanchayat (mega convention) called against the loudspeaker’s confiscation. Among those detained were Sarvesh and party MLA Sangeet Som, an accused in the Muzaffarnagar riots.
If Muzaffarnagar sowed the seeds for Moradabad (60km away) and Saharanpur (100km away), the ripples from the July tensions are being felt in Ground Zero of the September violence. “We are very scared. There is always the apprehension of another riot breaking out,” said Noor Hasan, still living in one of the Muzaffarnagar relief camps. “Fear is bound to be there if people like (Sanjeev) Balyan enjoy such goodwill in the BJP.” Balyan, now Muzaffarnagar MP, has been picked as a junior minister in the Narendra Modi government despite facing charges of inciting last September’s riots.
In the April-May elections, Uttar Pradesh — where Muslims account for nearly 19 per cent of the voters — for the first time failed to send even one candidate from the community to the Lok Sabha. The BJP and its allies won 73 of the state’s 80 seats.
In UP’s restive towns, a usual suspect called poll
IMRAN AHMED SIDDIQUI
Moradabad/Saharanpur, July 27: Moradabad and Saharanpur are 140km apart but united by two common features: upcoming polls and communal tension. It’s an association of factors that is taking on the shape of a trend in western Uttar Pradesh, especially since the Muzaffarnagar riots last September in the run-up to this summer’s general election when the BJP swept the state.
Saharanpur City as well as Thakundara in Moradabad will vote in next month’s Assembly by-elections, having fallen vacant after their representatives were elected to the Lok Sabha in May. The vote comes at a time sections of the political spectrum seem to have drawn mainly one lesson from Muzaffarnagar: that a communal polarisation may be a sure-fire formula for electoral success.
Communal clashes over a disputed plot killed three people and injured 27 in Saharanpur on Saturday, but local people and police were all agreed that the real “plot” was not a patch of land. “The real issue is the polls. That’s why the political parties are again busy igniting communal passions - it’s all for electoral gain,” said a senior officer in Moradabad, one among several sent from Lucknow to control the situation. “We saw it before the Lok Sabha elections too.”
Residents said the communal situation in Saharanpur had been tense since July 4, when protesters attacked the police in Moradabad’s Kanth area after district authorities removed a temple loudspeaker from Akbar Chedri village. Reports said Muslims had protested the constant use of the loudspeaker, donated by local BJP Lok Sabha member Kunwar Sarvesh, during Ramazan prayers.
A preliminary police probe has suggested that both BJP and Congress leaders instigated people in Saharanpur, precipitating Saturday’s violence, a senior officer said. Two communities claim ownership of the disputed plot, located next to a gurdwara in the Kutubsher area, about 180km from Delhi. The clashes began after a group of people began construction on the land in the early hours of Saturday.
Both the police and residents accuse local Congress leader Imran Masood and BJP Lok Sabha member Raghav Lakhanpal of playing key roles in worsening the situation. Masood had been in the news during the Lok Sabha poll campaign, having allegedly threatened to chop Narendra Modi into pieces in a speech. He fought the election on a Congress ticket but lost to Lakhanpal.
“We have ordered a probe and will file cases soon against political leaders for inciting violence,” the senior officer said. Over 20 people have been arrested. Curfew and shoot-at-sight orders remained in force on Sunday in six areas in Saharanpur. “The situation is better than yesterday,” district magistrate Sandhya Tiwari said.
While Saharanpur has grabbed the latest headlines, Moradabad continues to simmer too — with a lot of help from most of the state’s major political players. Mohammed Ghulfam, a maulvi in the Muslim-majority village of Akbarpur Chedri, the epicentre, said: “We are living in constant fear. A riot can break out any time.”
Yesterday, the police prevented leaders from the BJP, Congress and the state’s ruling Samajwadi Party from holding “peace rallies” over the July 4 violence. Each side in the political battle has been accusing the other of trying to polarise voters at its rallies.
“Both the BJP and the Congress-Samajwadis are trying their best to keep the issue alive for electoral gain,” a district official in Moradabad said. “We have imposed Section 144 (which prohibits the assembly of more than five people) in Moradabad.” Both Muslims and Hindus in Akbarpur Chedri said they had lived in amity before. “We participated in each other’s festivals and always helped one another. We exchanged gifts and sweets during Id,” said a man named Lakshman. “Now love has turned to hatred. We’ve stopped talking to each other.” “When Sarvesh asked us to install the loudspeaker inside the temple for puja, the Muslims objected,” said Radhesyam, a man from the village who works as a labourer in Delhi.
The Muslims in the village said the loudspeaker was a ploy to sow communal tension during the month of Ramazan when the community holds special prayers at night. “The temple had never had a loudspeaker since it was built 45 years ago,” said Mohammed Ashraf, a local trader. Apparently, the temple hired a loudspeaker once a year, during Shivaratri. The July 4 violence occurred after the police prevented BJP leaders, including four MPs, from reaching the area for a mahapanchayat (mega convention) called against the loudspeaker’s confiscation. Among those detained were Sarvesh and party MLA Sangeet Som, an accused in the Muzaffarnagar riots.
If Muzaffarnagar sowed the seeds for Moradabad (60km away) and Saharanpur (100km away), the ripples from the July tensions are being felt in Ground Zero of the September violence. “We are very scared. There is always the apprehension of another riot breaking out,” said Noor Hasan, still living in one of the Muzaffarnagar relief camps. “Fear is bound to be there if people like (Sanjeev) Balyan enjoy such goodwill in the BJP.” Balyan, now Muzaffarnagar MP, has been picked as a junior minister in the Narendra Modi government despite facing charges of inciting last September’s riots.
In the April-May elections, Uttar Pradesh — where Muslims account for nearly 19 per cent of the voters — for the first time failed to send even one candidate from the community to the Lok Sabha. The BJP and its allies won 73 of the state’s 80 seats.
India: BJP MP uses ‘Social media used to incite violence’ on Saharanpur
The Hindu, NEW DELHI, July 28, 2014
‘Social media used to incite violence’
by Devesh K. Pandey
Tweets by BJP national executive member C T Ravi on the Sahranpur riots has come in for severe criticism for their inflammatory tone. In one of the posts, Mr. Ravi, who is also party general secretary for Karnataka, uploaded a video link that said: “How Congress leaders made 1000s of Muslims attack the Gurdwara & cause Saharanpur riots — watch this Sikh speak.”
Mr. Ravi also tweeted, “Only the Gujarat model, that worked from 2002 in containing their rioting elements, can work. Apply across Bharat.”
Appealing to the NHRC to take note of these messages, Delhi-based lawyer Shehzad Poonawala said: “These tweets are inflammatory, hate-inciting and aimed at communalising the atmosphere.” Mr. Poonawalla alleged that the modus operandi and design behind these riots seemed was reminiscent of the Muzaffarnagar riots in which dozens of people were killed on the basis of false propaganda spread via social media. “Since Mr. Ravi belongs to the same party as the PM and the Home Minister, and mentioned ‘Gujarat Model from 2002’… It is essential that the PM and the Home Minister clarify if they endorse this brand of communal politics.”
‘Social media used to incite violence’
by Devesh K. Pandey
Tweets by BJP national executive member C T Ravi on the Sahranpur riots has come in for severe criticism for their inflammatory tone. In one of the posts, Mr. Ravi, who is also party general secretary for Karnataka, uploaded a video link that said: “How Congress leaders made 1000s of Muslims attack the Gurdwara & cause Saharanpur riots — watch this Sikh speak.”
Mr. Ravi also tweeted, “Only the Gujarat model, that worked from 2002 in containing their rioting elements, can work. Apply across Bharat.”
Appealing to the NHRC to take note of these messages, Delhi-based lawyer Shehzad Poonawala said: “These tweets are inflammatory, hate-inciting and aimed at communalising the atmosphere.” Mr. Poonawalla alleged that the modus operandi and design behind these riots seemed was reminiscent of the Muzaffarnagar riots in which dozens of people were killed on the basis of false propaganda spread via social media. “Since Mr. Ravi belongs to the same party as the PM and the Home Minister, and mentioned ‘Gujarat Model from 2002’… It is essential that the PM and the Home Minister clarify if they endorse this brand of communal politics.”
July 26, 2014
India: 2 dead, 12 injured in Saharanpur clashes; Centre sends 600 paramilitary forces to Uttar Pradesh
Daily News and Analysis
Saturday, 26 July 2014 - 11:00pm IST Updated: Saturday, 26 July 2014 - 9:45pm IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA Webdesk
Violent clashes broke out on Saturday in Saharanpur between two communities over a land dispute in Saharanpur with the two sides indulging in brick batting and arson, leaving some persons injured and prompting authorities to impose curfew in the district. Two people lost their lives in the clash.
Latest on the Saharanpur incident
Saharanpur clash: Centre sends 600 paramilitary forces to Uttar Pradesh
Around 600 paramilitary force personnel have been sent to Uttar Pradesh by the Central government to maintain law and order situation in the state in the wake of violence in Saharanpur. Read more
All you want to know about the Saharanpur riots in Uttar Pradesh
Violent clashes broke out in Saharanpur in western Uttar Pradesh on Saturday over a land dispute as groups of Muslims and Sikhs clashed on the streets in broad daylight. Authorities imposed curfew in the region to bring the situation under control after two persons were killed and at least 12 others injured in the clashes between the two communities over a land dispute. The early morning violent clashes broke out around 5 a.m. Five policemen were reportedly injured as the two sides indulged in brick batting and arson. The mob also burnt shops and vehicles. People with swords ran after Sikh community while the Sikh groups indulged in stone pelting in protest as the city witnessed violence, a day after the last Friday of holy month of Ramadan. Read more
Rajnath Singh calls up Akhilesh Yadav; asks to ensure peace
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday asked Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to ensure communal harmony in the state in the wake of violence in Saharanpur and offered all help to contain the situation.
Singh telephoned Yadav and expressed his concern over the violent clashes that broke out between two communities in the Western Uttar Pradesh town and asked the Chief Minister to take all possible steps to ensure peace in the state, particularly in Saharanpur, official sources said.
Rahul Gandhi calls for end to 'politics of hatred'
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday called for an end to the "politics of hatred" in the country as communal tension flared up in Uttar Pradesh while his party accused BJP of carrying out "pre-planned communal polarisation". "I am deeply saddened to hear of clashes in Saharanpur. Violence, divisiveness and hatred have no place in our country. This politics of hatred must end. I appeal to every one to remain calm and refrain from fanning communal passions," Gandhi said in a statement.
What happened?
As curfew was imposed in three police station areas, two people died. At least 18 others, including five policemen, were injured during the clashes in Kutubshehr area of Saharanpur.
The casualties:
The communal conflagration also resulted in nearly two dozen shops and vehicles being gutted in the Saharanpur area. DIG Saharanpur N Ravindra said the clashes started over an old dispute over a piece of land caught in litigation which was lodged between two places of worship.
Reason for crisis:
On Saturday, some members of one community began constructing a boundary wall around the land and the members of second community opposed this. A verbal spat began and led to the two groups hurling stones at each other.
Development:
District police told media that they used force and even fired rubber bullets to control flare and tussle. Following the communal tension, district administration has imposed section 144 of the CrPC in Saharanpur area.
Even PAC and RAF have been deployed in the area to bring situation under control.
Aftermath:
The situation remained very tense in Moradabad — BJP has been demanding an FIR being lodged against Moradabad SSP Dharmveer Yadav.
BJP alleged that its senior leaders were either detained from reaching Kanth. BJP state unit chief Laxmikant Bajpayi had reached Kanth and met the district magistrate.
Akhilesh asks officials to monitor situation in Saharanpur
With tension prevailing in Saharanpur and Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday directed senior home department officials to strictly handle the situation in the two areas.
"A continuous monitoring of the situation in Saharanpur and Moradabad is being done by senior police and government officials," Principal Secretary (Information) Navneet Sehgal told PTI.
"The CM has directed Principal Secretary (Home) to deal with the Saharanpur situation strictly. He has directed that there must be no laxity at any level and law and order must be maintained at any cost," he said.
Watch the video reports:
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Saturday, 26 July 2014 - 11:00pm IST Updated: Saturday, 26 July 2014 - 9:45pm IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA Webdesk
Violent clashes broke out on Saturday in Saharanpur between two communities over a land dispute in Saharanpur with the two sides indulging in brick batting and arson, leaving some persons injured and prompting authorities to impose curfew in the district. Two people lost their lives in the clash.
Latest on the Saharanpur incident
Saharanpur clash: Centre sends 600 paramilitary forces to Uttar Pradesh
Around 600 paramilitary force personnel have been sent to Uttar Pradesh by the Central government to maintain law and order situation in the state in the wake of violence in Saharanpur. Read more
All you want to know about the Saharanpur riots in Uttar Pradesh
Violent clashes broke out in Saharanpur in western Uttar Pradesh on Saturday over a land dispute as groups of Muslims and Sikhs clashed on the streets in broad daylight. Authorities imposed curfew in the region to bring the situation under control after two persons were killed and at least 12 others injured in the clashes between the two communities over a land dispute. The early morning violent clashes broke out around 5 a.m. Five policemen were reportedly injured as the two sides indulged in brick batting and arson. The mob also burnt shops and vehicles. People with swords ran after Sikh community while the Sikh groups indulged in stone pelting in protest as the city witnessed violence, a day after the last Friday of holy month of Ramadan. Read more
Rajnath Singh calls up Akhilesh Yadav; asks to ensure peace
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday asked Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to ensure communal harmony in the state in the wake of violence in Saharanpur and offered all help to contain the situation.
Singh telephoned Yadav and expressed his concern over the violent clashes that broke out between two communities in the Western Uttar Pradesh town and asked the Chief Minister to take all possible steps to ensure peace in the state, particularly in Saharanpur, official sources said.
Rahul Gandhi calls for end to 'politics of hatred'
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday called for an end to the "politics of hatred" in the country as communal tension flared up in Uttar Pradesh while his party accused BJP of carrying out "pre-planned communal polarisation". "I am deeply saddened to hear of clashes in Saharanpur. Violence, divisiveness and hatred have no place in our country. This politics of hatred must end. I appeal to every one to remain calm and refrain from fanning communal passions," Gandhi said in a statement.
What happened?
As curfew was imposed in three police station areas, two people died. At least 18 others, including five policemen, were injured during the clashes in Kutubshehr area of Saharanpur.
The casualties:
The communal conflagration also resulted in nearly two dozen shops and vehicles being gutted in the Saharanpur area. DIG Saharanpur N Ravindra said the clashes started over an old dispute over a piece of land caught in litigation which was lodged between two places of worship.
Reason for crisis:
On Saturday, some members of one community began constructing a boundary wall around the land and the members of second community opposed this. A verbal spat began and led to the two groups hurling stones at each other.
Development:
District police told media that they used force and even fired rubber bullets to control flare and tussle. Following the communal tension, district administration has imposed section 144 of the CrPC in Saharanpur area.
Even PAC and RAF have been deployed in the area to bring situation under control.
Aftermath:
The situation remained very tense in Moradabad — BJP has been demanding an FIR being lodged against Moradabad SSP Dharmveer Yadav.
BJP alleged that its senior leaders were either detained from reaching Kanth. BJP state unit chief Laxmikant Bajpayi had reached Kanth and met the district magistrate.
Akhilesh asks officials to monitor situation in Saharanpur
With tension prevailing in Saharanpur and Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday directed senior home department officials to strictly handle the situation in the two areas.
"A continuous monitoring of the situation in Saharanpur and Moradabad is being done by senior police and government officials," Principal Secretary (Information) Navneet Sehgal told PTI.
"The CM has directed Principal Secretary (Home) to deal with the Saharanpur situation strictly. He has directed that there must be no laxity at any level and law and order must be maintained at any cost," he said.
Watch the video reports:
seem more at: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-live-updating-2-dead-12-injured-in-saharanpur-clashes-centre-sends-600-paramilitary-forces-to-uttar-pradesh-2005557
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Express investigation part-II: My loudspeaker versus your loudspeaker
Written by Appu Esthose Suresh | Saharanpur/ Bijnor/ Moradabad | August 6, 2014