DM Monitoring
NEW DELHI: The mosques and famous tombs of notable saints in India are being demolished with impunity under the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP-led government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
This ongoing encroachment drive is aimed at alienating Indian Muslims and depriving them of their basic right to worship. It also unveils the true anti-Muslim agenda of the fascist BJP government under which events of hatred against Muslims have increased manifolds.
The BJP’s extremist pursuit of Hindutva supremacy ever since it took the reins of the government in 2014, has led to several incidents of mob lynching, attacks on mosques and tombs as well as diatribes against Muslims.
Notable international human rights organisation including the Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have called out Indian government in their reports for ostracising minority religious groups by targeting them through several coercive ways.
The verdicts given by courts in favour of Muslims are routinely brushed aside which run counter the “Secular India’ claims.
The USCIRF has termed India a country that infringes on the rights of Muslims. It has also demanded accountability of India for violating rights of other communities.
Earlier, At least four foreign students have been injured after a Hindu far-right mob allegedly stormed a university hostel in India’s western Gujarat state and attacked the group of students for offering prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, local media has reported.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs on Sunday pledged to take “strict actions against the perpetrators”, as the local police in the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi said an investigation was under way in connection with the attack at the Gujarat University.
The students told local media that a small group had gathered on Saturday night inside the boys’ hostel premises for the Ramadan tarawih prayer as there is no mosque on the university campus based in Ahmedabad. Soon after, a mob armed with sticks and knives stormed the hostel, attacked them and vandalised their rooms, they said.
“A group of 15 students were offering prayers when three people came and started shouting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ [Hail lord Ram]. They objected to us praying here,” local media quoted a student as saying.
“After some time, about 250 people came and shouted ‘Jai Shri Ram’. They pelted stones and vandalised hostel properties.”
A student from Afghanistan told local NDTV network: “They attacked us inside the rooms too. They broke laptops, phones and damaged bikes,” adding that the AC and sound system were destroyed as well.
