By Imran Ahmed Siddiqui / Telegraph India
A fact-finding committee formed by the NGO Janhastakshep has accused Hindutva groups such as the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of engineering the communal violence in Haryana’s Nuh district during a religious procession.
Six people were killed in the clashes on July 31.
“Even as Manipur continues to burn and witness mayhem, Mewat (where Nuh falls) has been set ablaze by the Hindutva hordes. When the rulers have no solution to people’s problems, keeping them mired in one crisis after another, each possibly bigger than the earlier one, is perhaps the only solution our rulers can think of, and this precisely is what the RSS-BJP attempted to do in Nuh-Mewat through their frontal organisations,” the committee said in its report.
“There is no mention whatsoever in the FIRs of violence, including use of firearms, unleashed from the side of those taking out the so-called ‘Dharmik Yatra’. The portends of this are clear, that in the FIRs only one side is the culprit while the side represented by Bajrang Dal and VHP rabble-rousers are the victims, all the videos showing the violence indulged in by the Hindutva goons notwithstanding. Such a framing of the events in the FIRs also means that there shall be arrest only of the Muslim youth, as has already started happening,” the report said.
It said a call had been given by the Bajrang Dal and the VHP for the procession to be taken out in Mewat on July 31. The yatra started from the Nalhar Shiv Mandir, located a little outside the town of Nuh on the Aravali’s foothills, and passed through the town covering a distance of about 40km.
The practice of taking out such a yatra started in 2021 and had led to communal tension last year, too, when a mazaar (shrine) situated near a temple had been damaged.
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