Ahmadabad, May 5, 2022 : As many as 17 properties belonging to Muslims were bulldozed by Hindutva Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP government in Indian state Gujarat state.This was the second demolition drive on 28 April carried out by BJP government in less than two weeks in Khambhat town of the state.
The Hindutva administrations led by Hindutva BJP have been targeting Muslims after communal tensions broke out over anti-Muslim chants during Ram Navami processions in Gujarat and some other states.
40-year-old Sayid is one of the Muslims whose warehouses were reduced to rubble on 28 April in Gujarat has said that he had suffered losses amounting to Rs 9 lakh. “I am on the streets, I have lost everything,” Sayid was quoted by an Indian news agency Scroll as saying.
Processions led by Hindu extremist groups’ sparked violence on 10 April in Gujarat’s Khambhat. Five days after the incident, Hindutva BJP administration razed several shops belonging to Muslims in the area.
Scores of Muslims have also been arrested after the 10 April in Khambhat. Many of them are the ones whose shops and other belongings have been bulldozed by BJP government authorities.