He said that “somewhere this is happening under a conspiracy by them (Muslims). The Chief Minister isn’t alone in the BJP to fuel the fire.Īfter the episode at Purola, the constituency’s BJP MLA Durgeshwar Lal told the media that Purola flare-up was against ‘love jihad’ and ‘land jihad’ by a “particular community”. However, the Centre has maintained there is no legal definition of “love jihad”. Multiple times, before and after the Purola flare-up, he has called for strict action against ‘love jihad’ and (sidenote)land jihad(/sidenote). All of them were laced with messaging on (sidenote)love jihad(/sidenote) and other typical Hindutva tropes against Muslims.Įven the top leadership of the state, chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, has supported such claims against Muslims. Rallies were held in parts of Uttarkashi – in towns of Barkot and Chinyalisaur and villages of Naugaon, Damta, Barnigad, Netwar and Bhatwari - against Muslims. Purola isn’t an isolated fray in the communal fabric. When asked if cases have been filed for hate speeches, he said no. “We have filed a case against unknown persons for pasting the posters,” Surender Singh Bhandari, the Circle Officer of Barkot town told The Collective on June 7. The police say they haven’t yet identified the troublemakers. Several Muslim families had fled the town by the time The Collective reached Purola on June 6.īut the police and the administration, always quick to arrest stand-up comedians, opposition leaders, students and activists on the slightest provocations against the government, have dismissed the communal tension in the hill town as “media hype”. The threats of persecution and the announcement of a massive gathering ( mahapanchayat) by a mysterious group, further incited by leaders of BJP, have already done the damage.
Posters asking the Muslim community to leave before June 15 surfaced in Purola on June 5. Time will decide the repercussions of not doing so.” Later, posters were pasted on these shut shops warning: “Love Jihadis are informed to vacate their shops before the mahapanchayat on June 15. In a protest rally, some shops of Muslims were vandalised, forcing the Muslim community to keep their shops shut in fear. The traders’ union of the town supported closing of the shops - majority of which are owned by Hindus - in support of the call to force Muslims out of the town. The missive from the office bearer of the ruling party is the clearest call for the persecution of Muslims in Purola, where a communal fire has been raging since May 26 over the alleged bid to abduct a minor Hindu girl by two youths – a Muslim and a Hindu. Then they will leave on their own,” Dabral told The Collective, sitting in a shop in the middle of the town market, surrounded by nodders. We will not let them do business here, will not let them open shops. “We will cordially chuck them out of here. He was referring to the Muslims living in the district’s western hill town of Purola. Purola, Uttarkashi: “We will chase them out with love,” said Prakash Kumar Dabral, the district general secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party’s Schedule Caste wing in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district.
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