At a Thakorkji Garba event in Surat city on Monday night, Bajrang Dal activists attacked bouncers from the minority group.
A venue in Vesu in Surat grew rowdy as Bajrang Dal militants showed up to protest Muslim bouncers being employed for the Hindu festival Navratri.
One bouncer was hurt in the altercation on Monday night and received medical attention there.Â
The issue was under control once the cops arrived on time, and the garba event quickly continued.
The Hindu festival of Navratri, which means “nine nights,” honours Durga and her nine manifestations, from the ferocious cosmos-creator Kushmanda to the sword-wielding Kaalratri. There are various Indian-specific ways to commemorate this occasion.
Gujarati Navratri is not complete without garba.
Nine nights of dance in Gujarat symbolise devotion and worship. For Durga, men and women dance all night long. For these nine days and nights, many choose to fast or adhere to a rigorous diet.
Muslim bouncers
The Thakor Vadi garba organiser had recruited a security crew that included Muslim bouncers, the Bajrang Dal activists discovered on Sunday night during a surprise inspection.
Although Muslim bouncers were present at the event’s security gate on Monday night, the activists requested that the organiser cancel the security service and make sure that no Muslim bouncers were on duty.
False identities used by Muslim Bouncers
When the activists asked the Muslim bouncers for their names, they gave false identities using Hindu names, which sparked the altercation, according to a local Bajrang Dal activist.
The organisers were instructed to use exclusively Hindu merchants for the Navratri celebration because it is a Hindu event and is linked to people’s religious sensibilities, according to Hitendrasinh Rajput, spokesman for Bajrang Dal and VHP Gujarat.
However, when they discovered that several bouncers at a venue had been hired from the Muslim community, they discovered that they were lenient about not checking the identity documents of people entering the facility.
“The police received a report of a conflict at the Thakorji vadi garba event. A team was sent, and the issue was resolved. Police don’t have specific details, but one person is reportedly hurt. An inquiry is ongoing, and Sagar Bagmar, the Surat deputy commissioner of police, promised that whoever is to blame will be caught.
Because Navratri is a Hindu celebration and garba dancing is a form of worship for our deities, a Bajrang Dal activist who was aware of the activities remarked, “If they can keep Halal economy just limited to Muslims, we can too.”
Two injured bouncers
While several of the bouncers managed to flee the venue, two of them were hurt and taken to the hospital. In this regard, no police report had been filed.
The two injured bouncers were treated right away at the hospital, where it is said that their condition is stable.
After arriving at the scene Monday night, Deputy Commissioner zone Sagar Bagmer shared that after hearing about the event, his personnel went to the scene and took control of the situation without any further delay.Â
Division of beliefs
Islam’s harshest punishment for idolatry is death. Therefore, in an ideal situation, people who do not believe in Hindu gods and goddesses and who consider the dance form, a form of devotion for the Hindu goddesses during Navratri, to be sinful, should not be taking part in the festivities.
The death penalty is the most severe sanction that Islam imposes for idolatry.
People who do not believe in the gods and goddesses of Hinduism and who regard the dance form that is performed during Navratri as a form of devotion to the Hindu goddesses to be impure ought not to take part in the festivities. This is considered as the ideal scenario by those who took part in the fight.
False Hindu names
According to Bajrang Dal activists, some of the attendees reached the location using false Hindu names while they were actually using Muslims. They were even more annoyed by the sneaky entrance to the location.
In the past few days, a number of incidences involving Muslim men who entered a location using false Hindu names have occurred across the nation. Some locations in Gujarat also saw stone-throwing by Muslim groups who opposed the Navratri celebration.
