By Kalyan Das
DEHRADUN: A traders’ body in Uttarakhand’s Khansar town in Chamoli district, around 260km from Dehradun, has “passed a resolution” asking about 15 Muslim families to leave the town by Dec 31. Some of them have been in Chamoli for decades.
The resolution was passed on Wednesday during a meeting of the vyapar mandal, following a ‘chetna’ (awareness) rally in Maithan market of Khansar on the same day.
TOI has accessed a video of the rally in which the participants, mostly local traders, could be purportedly seen raising provocative slogans.
Former traders’ body president Virendra Singh, who is now president of Maithan Seva Samiti, told TOI the resolution was passed “unanimously” as “preventive action.”
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