By News Desk
Hindutva group members in Maharashtra’s Badlapur area targeted and assaulted Muslim vegetable vendors in a campaign to make “Bangladeshi Mukt Badlapur” (Bangladesh-free).
Videos emerge
A series of videos published by Hate Detector that have surfaced on social media platforms capture a moment of the right-wing members conducting raids aggressively on multiple vegetable stalls owned by Muslim vendors and accusing them of being “Bangladeshi immigrants “.
All these video clips show the group members chasing the vendors and interrogating them about their identity. The group members are seen asking the vendors to present their Aadhaar cards to prove their nationality.
One particularly distressing clip shows a young vendor constantly asserting his identity, stating, “I am from Kolkata, not Bangladesh,” while the group members are seen ignoring his clarification and hurling communal slurs at him.
This story was originally published in siasat.com. Read the full story here.