Hours After PM Modi’s Promising Words for Minorities, Muslim Youth Thrashed, Asked to Chant Jai Shri Ram in BJP-Ruled Haryana

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Gurugram, May 26— Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday told the nation that minorities were kept in fear for electoral gains for decades and asked his NDA parties to win their trust, a Muslim youth was reportedly assaulted in Gurugram in BJP-ruled Haryana, hardly couple of hours drive from the national capital. The Muslim youth was not only thrashed when he was returning from Travih, special night prayers in Ramazan, but was also asked by the goons to remove his skullcap and chant Jai Shri Ram.

The victim identified as Mohammad Barkat, 25, was beaten by a group of men at Jacubpura in Gurugram on May 25 night after he was told to remove his skullcap and chant Jai Shri Ram and no arrests have been made so far,” says a report in The Hindu.

According to the report, Barkat was returning to his shop around 10 p.m. on Saturday after offering prayers at Jama Masjid in Gurugram when a group of about half a dozen men allegedly accosted him outside a sweet shop and told him to remove his skull cap.

“One of the men called me with an offensive word and told me that skullcap was not allowed in this area. When I told him that I was returning from a mosque, he slapped me. He also asked me to chant Bharat Mata Ki Jai and Jai Shri Ram. When I refused, he threatened to feed me pork,” Barkat was quoted as saying.

The goons also allegedly hit him with a stick and also abused him. His cousin later took him to civil hospital where authorities made a call to the police and a case was registered on charges of promoting religious hatred, causing hurt, criminal intimidation and unlawful assembly, among others, at City Police Station.

Ironically, hours before the incident on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing the newly-elected Lok Sabha MPs of BJP-led NDA and their leaders in the Central Hall of Parliament had talked about minorities and their fear.

Accusing opposition parties of using minorities for electoral gains, PM Modi said that the BJP and his allies should remove the sense of fear among them as everybody needs to be taken along for the country’s prosperity.

“Unfortunately, minorities of this country have been kept in fear, used in elections. We have to end this cycle,” Modi said, calling for winning the trust and confidence of minorities.

“The way the poor have been cheated, the minorities have been deceived the same way. It would have been good if their education, their health had been taken care of. In 2019, I expect you to punch a hole in that deception. We have to earn their trust,” PM Modi said.

What Happened in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh on May 22?
The Gurgaon incident was second in last three days wherein Muslims were thrashed and asked to chant Jai Shri Ram.

On May 22, the eve of the Lok Sabha election results when BJP was busy in preparation for victory celebration as all the exit polls had predict landslide victory for the saffron party, a group of self-styled cow vigilantes in Seoni of Madhya Pradesh under Congress rule since Dec 2018 – decided to give a ‘special’ salute to the victory. They rounded a Muslim couple and their Hindu friend for allegedly carrying beef and mercilessly thrashed them. As such brutal gangs of self-styled cow vigilantes have been doing, they recorded their ‘heroic’ act on mobile camera and uploaded on social media, little worried about the consequences.

Story did not end there. At the call of the attackers, police came and ‘obediently’ arrested the Muslim couple and their friend.

After a video went viral on the social media in which five people were seen beating the Muslim couple and their friend, leading to huge uproar, the local police on Saturday arrested and jailed the five accused.

In the video, posted on the social media by the main accused Shubham Baghel on Friday, the cow vigilantes with saffron gamchha (towels) around their necks are beating two persons with sticks.

The cow vigilantes — Baghel, Yogesh Uike, Dileep Namdev, Rohit Yadav and Shyam Lal — had assaulted the Muslim couple identified as Tausif Khan and Shama Ansari and their Hindu friend Dilip Malviya.

According to India Today, the victims have alleged they were forced to chant ‘Jai Shree Ram’.

In the video, it is seen that the cow vigilantes forced one of the two males to hit the woman with slippers.

It is important to note here that since the campaign for Lok Sabha elections began two months ago, no such incident had occurred in any part of the country.

In the five years of the BJP government at the centre (2014-2019), dozens of people were killed by mobs over rumors related to cow smuggling, cow slaughter or beef consumption.

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