As many as 135, or 22%, of the 623 candidates contesting in the third phase of Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh have criminal cases against them, non-profit organisation the Association for Democratic Reforms said on Tuesday. It also said that 103, or 17%, have serious criminal cases like those of murder, kidnapping and rape registered against them.
Scores of seers and saints camping at Magh Mela on the sandy banks of the river Ganga on Saturday raised a demand for declaring India a Hindu nation, treating Subhash Chandra Bose as the first Prime Minister of the country and capital punishment for conversion which should be treated as treason.
In the Chauri Chaura area of Gorakhpur, the Hindutva mob surrounded a Muslim house, pelted stones, and vandalized properties belonging to Muslim families. After Islamic flags hung from the rooftops of Muslim houses went made viral claiming as “Pakistani Flag”. Following, the violent mob surrounded the locality and raised Hindutva war cry slogans
Christians are not being allowed to practice their faith and are being constantly attacked and persecuted on baseless claims of forceful conversion.
A 22-year-old Muslim youth was lynched by a mob on Thursday evening, while he was returning home from the work. The deceased has been identified as Samir Chaudhary from Shamli district, Uttar Pradesh.
Those people beat me so much that I fainted. They used casteist abuses and mother-sister profanities. They broke both my legs. I suffered several serious injuries
Such attacks on Muslims are unfortunately not new in India, let alone Uttar Pradesh. Already within the last fortnight, several unsettling hate crimes have been reported in the country.
The RSS-BJP to an extent has succeeded in portraying Muslims as a second and unequal to Hindu Majority. Here in this country, Hate is openly preached inside the temple, within the premises of households and on the streets. The country is becoming a war zone where a Hindutva goon holds the license to humiliate, assault and thrash any Muslims they wish.
