Lucknow, April 5: The Hindutva Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sangeet Som has vadalised a Muslim food vendor’s stall and looted his cart in BJP ruled Indian state Utter Pradesh .The poor Muslim youth was selling vegetable biryani, not mutton or beef biryani, was attacked and vandalized his stall by Hindutva Bharatiya Janata Party leader along with supporters as he was a Muslim in Sardhana in Meerut district of the state. The Hindutva goons looted his cart and robbed him of his hard earned money in the name of beef.
The incident is a reflection on the intensity with which the Hindutua parties like BJP, RSS, VHP and Banjrangdal is carries on its campaign for economic boycott of Muslims. Such is their determination to deprive the Muslim community of basic right to livelihood that they won’t like to spare even a humble street food vendor.
Targeting Muslim vendors, which of late have become rampant in another BJP ruled Karnataka state and other BJP rules states, can no longer are brushed aside as stray incidents. These, in fact, point to a diabolical plan to inflict economic apartheid on an entire community by scaring its members away from their traditional business enterprises. Hence, these premeditated assaults should be seen in the light of the larger agenda behind them.
Recounting the incident, Sajid said it all started when they asked him as to what he was selling. The unassuming vendor replied that it was veg biryani. Visibly unconvinced by his reply, they threw his biryani away and looted the cash.
Sajid lodged his complaint at the Sardhana police station. SHO of the police station, Laxaman Verma, told media men that they have initiated an investigation after filing a FIR in the matter. However, no arrest has been made in the case so far.
A Hindutva group barged into a branch of Janata Hotel warning the owner against selling halal meat. When a customer intervened to rein in the bullies, he was assaulted in Karnataka’s Shivmoga area.
These incidents are the result of Hindutva groups like Bartiya Janta Party, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal campaign against the minority community. Currently, they are going all out for boycott of halal meat and lobbying with Hindus against doing business with Muslims in Karnataka.
The full-scale campaign for economic boycott of Muslim came close on the heels of a diktat barring Muslims from doing business in and around Karnataka temples. The fringe outfits which are carrying out the dubious campaigns have tacit support of the Karnataka government under the BJP rule. The state animal husbandry department has even issued a circular prohibiting halal way of cattle slaughter in the state.