New Delhi: A tweet appeared, showing a Muslim man being roughed up and his mother’s clothes being torn in the Chhindwara constituency of former Congress chief minister Kamal Nath in India.
Elections are not due for Madhya Pradesh state assembly until November 2023. But this is the state the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party wrested from Congress not by winning the elections but by engineering defections.
And therefore it has an iffy power projection. Also, reports from local polls recently showed the BJP struggling in several mayoral contests. Result: periodic street violence against any group that appears to support the Congress, say analysts.
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There was no independent confirmation of the alleged incident, and no particular motive reported either for the assault. No beef-eating or insulting of Hindu deities. Just bloody-mindedness in a district where the Congress still poses a challenge.
The tweet referred to the incident that allegedly took place seven days ago. It said a mob attacked Wajid Ali, resident of Lalgaon village in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district, and his family. The emphasis was that the police had dragged their feet.
This man was travelling with his parents when a reportedly predominantly Hindu mob stopped him, assaulted them, dragged the man after tying him to the bike and tore the clothes of his mother. The incident happened on September 15 near Auria village.
Earlier, the OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir at the United Nations demanded that India must reverse all illegal and unilateral measures it took on or after Aug 5, 2019.
OIC Secretary General Hissein Brahim Taha chaired the meeting. On August 5, 2019, India forcibly annexed illegally occupied territories of Jammu and Kashmir, rescinding a special status granted by the Indian constitution.
The group met in New York on Wednesday on the sidelines of the session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and issued a joint communique, condemning the Indian occupation.
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