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From the year 2018 to 2019 in the state of UP, the rate of unemployment in the Muslim community has increased by 9.95%. It is higher than the national average rate of unemployment 7.23%. According to a report by the Centre of Development Policy and Practice (CDPP).
The steep increase in the unemployment rate is a strategical gaslighting. Its conducted by several leaders of the current ruling party in the state of UP and across the nation. Swami Anand Swaroop, the president of Shankaracharya Parishad, is based in Varanasi.
They urged his audience at a public seminar to socially and economically boycott the Muslims in January 2021. In other instances, BJP MLA Suresh Tiwari urged people not to buy vegetables from Muslim vendors in April 2020.
This Gaslighting resulted in the economic boycott and public harassment of the daily wage earners. Like vendors, hawkers, and workers in the state of UP which has increased in the last 5 years.
Here are some lists of the incidents that happened in the last five years with the ruling party in power and with the urge to create communal turmoil in the nation.
Vandalism of a Dosa Stall run by Muslim brothers in Mathura by a Hindu name.
The incident took place in August 2021 at Vikas Market in Mathura. The 35-year-old Dosa seller identified himself as Aved Khan humiliated, threatened, and vandalization of his stall on a busy market. For keeping their stall name “Sri Nath Dosa Corner” (another name of Hindu deity Lord Krishna). Despite belonging to another religious community.
The incident came to light when a mob identified themselves as members of Antarrashtriya Hindu Parishad (AHP). A breakaway faction of the Viswa Hindu Parishad, founded in 2017 on a busy afternoon accused Aved. His brother took away business from Hindu shopkeepers. They began yelling slogans of ‘Krishna Bhakt tum yudh Karo, Mathura ko ab shudh Karo (Worshipers of Krishna, wage war! Cleanse Mathura now).
The gatekeepers of the Hindu Community further stated that why don’t the Khan brother names their stall after Allah or Muhammad. All the Hindu brothers who don’t want to eat at your stall will come to your stall thinking you are Hindu”. The mob further went and vandalized the stall and took down its board.
“Sri Nath Dosa corner,” now changed to “American Dosa Corner,” is the most popular stall in the market for its cheap and hygienic food. Aved accused other stalls owners of not helping them during the mob attacked the Khan brothers.
Probably they (other stall owners) seemed to be happy. According to the police investigations, Pawan Yadav, a fellow Dosa stall owner, informed the AHP but Yadav denied the claims.
The Khan brothers had to spend six thousand rupees for renovating their stall, which cost them a lot.
Srikant Sharma, the city president of the International Hindu Parishad. He is one of the accused. He was arrested by the Mathura police days after the incident took place but eventually was let off on bail.
Halt in license renewal of the meat sellers in Agra.
Sellers of Nagina market, a popular meat market in the city of Agra, complained that the renewal of the license of meat selling has been at a halt for five years now. The butchers are selling meat illegally. Which makes it easy for the police to harass them. And they demand thousands of rupees from the sellers every month to allow them to operate.
According to some sellers, earlier, the renewal was a smooth process. But now the renewals are rejected consciously.
With the extra spending, the food and the education of their kins are now compromised. which earlier could be functioned smoothly, complained a butcher, Mohammad Irshad.
A shoe stall owner was harassed for selling shoes with ‘Thakur’ imprinted on the sole.
The incident took place in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district in Gulauthi in January 2021. Where a few members of the Right-wing Hindu group, Bajrang dal, harassed Nasir Ali, a roadside vendor. By throwing his shoes away for selling shoes with Thakur (an upper-caste Hindu surname) imprinted on its sole.
He was booked under Sections 153A (Promoting disharmony, enmity, or feelings of hatred between different groups). 323 (Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) of the Indian Penal Code. Later, Nasir was let off after the police found no evidence against him.
Nasir has no work these days. He had taken a loan of Rs 20,000 from which he had bought these shoes for Rs 16,000. He was able to sell anything barely before he was compelled to shut shop. It has been over a year now, and Nasir still hasn’t been able to repay this loan. which he is trying to pay back in small installments, according to the reports by The Quint.
Published By: Khushboo Mehta
Edited By: Kritika Kashyap
