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  • Communal clashes all through Ram Navami processions in Aurangabad, Vadodara and Howrah

    By means of PTI

    A couple of incidents of communal clashes broke out between communities in numerous portions of the rustic on Wednesday and Thursday amid Ram Navami celebrations.

    HOWRAH 

    Violence broke out between two teams when a Ram Navami procession used to be taken out in West Bengal’s Howrah town, the place a number of cars have been torched and retail outlets have been ransacked on Thursday night.

    Police stated quite a few other folks have been detained on this connection.

    Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee, who’s on a dharna, stated strict motion will probably be taken towards the culprits. A police officer stated the incident befell when the procession used to be passing throughout the Kazipara locality.

    A number of retail outlets and auto-rickshaws have been ransacked all through the violence whilst quite a few vehicles together with a couple of police cars have been set on fireplace.

    4 fireplace tenders have been pressed into provider to extinguish the blaze. The police used power to disperse the mob.

    A big contingent of police used to be deployed within the locality the place the location is said to be below keep watch over.

    The executive minister slammed the BJP for allegedly looking to stoke communal rigidity all through the Ram Navami procession in Howrah and stated the ones concerned within the incident is probably not spared.

    READ HERE | Violence over Ram Navami procession in Bengal’s Howrah 

    AURANGABAD

    No less than 12 individuals, together with 10 policemen, have been injured after a mob of round 500 other folks went berserk and hurled stones and petrol-filled bottles when the police officers attempted to keep watch over the location following a conflict between two teams close to a Ram temple in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad town, officers stated on Thursday.

    The incident, wherein 13 cars have been torched through the miscreants, befell all through the intervening evening of Wednesday and Thursday within the town’s Kiradpura locality that properties the well-known Ram temple, they stated.

    Ram Navami is being celebrated on Thursday.

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    The police used tear fuel and fired some plastic bullets in addition to are living rounds to keep watch over the mob, the officers stated, including that 8 groups had been shaped to spot and arrest the perpetrators.

    The location is now below keep watch over and safety body of workers had been deployed throughout Aurangabad, now named Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.

    “It began after two teams, each and every comprising round 5 individuals, clashed close to the Ram temple. After a while, one crew left where and the police quickly got here to the web page. After an hour, a mob amassed there, bringing stones and petrol-filled bottles alongside, which they threw on the police body of workers,” Aurangabad Police Commissioner Nikhil Gupta advised ABP Majha, a Marathi information channel.

    The road lighting fixtures within the space have been additionally broken through the miscreants, so there used to be darkness within the space, he stated.

    “We had to make use of further power to disperse the mob. They burnt police cars close to the Ram temple beside hurling stones and petrol-filled bottles on the police body of workers. The police used tear fuel broadly along side some plastic bullets and are living rounds on this case,” he stated.

    READ HERE | Clashes between teams close to Ram temple flip violent on Ram Navami eve

    “Now we have shaped 8 groups to spot the miscreants and arrest them. Now we have additionally were given further power which is now deployed within the town to care for peace. The management will hang an all-party assembly over keeping up peace,” the police commissioner stated.

    AHMEDABAD

    Violence erupted between Hindus and Muslims in Vadodara all through a Ram Navami procession within the town on Thursday. 

    When a procession led through the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal handed thru Fatepura Street with police coverage, a brawl erupted between the 2 teams close to the Panjrigar Maholla space. 

    The police arrived and surrounded the world after the conflict, say studies. Whilst some cars have been broken, nobody used to be injured, and the procession persisted alongside its deliberate direction below police coverage, in line with police. The brawlers allegedly broken two-wheelers. The police are analyzing the photos from the CCTV digicam put in on the scene for the stone pelters.

    Vadodara Deputy Commissioner of Police Yashpal Jaganiya stated,  “Some other folks had amassed when the procession handed sooner than the mosque. However they have been persuaded to depart. The realm is calm now that the procession has handed.”

    Ketan Trivedi, president of the Vadodara Bajrang Dal, advised native media that the stone-pelting used to be a part of a conspiracy. “This procession is deliberate just about annually. Regardless of this, there used to be no police presence within the space. Stones have been thrown as a part of a pre-planned conspiracy,” he said.

    READ HERE | Police deny Hindu outfit’s declare on stone-pelting all through Ram Navami procession in Vadodara

    (With inputs from Dilip Singh Kshatriya, Specific Information Provider)

    A couple of incidents of communal clashes broke out between communities in numerous portions of the rustic on Wednesday and Thursday amid Ram Navami celebrations.

    HOWRAH 

    Violence broke out between two teams when a Ram Navami procession used to be taken out in West Bengal’s Howrah town, the place a number of cars have been torched and retail outlets have been ransacked on Thursday night.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Police stated quite a few other folks have been detained on this connection.

    Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee, who’s on a dharna, stated strict motion will probably be taken towards the culprits. A police officer stated the incident befell when the procession used to be passing throughout the Kazipara locality.

    A number of retail outlets and auto-rickshaws have been ransacked all through the violence whilst quite a few vehicles together with a couple of police cars have been set on fireplace.

    4 fireplace tenders have been pressed into provider to extinguish the blaze. The police used power to disperse the mob.

    A big contingent of police used to be deployed within the locality the place the location is said to be below keep watch over.

    The executive minister slammed the BJP for allegedly looking to stoke communal rigidity all through the Ram Navami procession in Howrah and stated the ones concerned within the incident is probably not spared.

    READ HERE | Violence over Ram Navami procession in Bengal’s Howrah 

    AURANGABAD

    No less than 12 individuals, together with 10 policemen, have been injured after a mob of round 500 other folks went berserk and hurled stones and petrol-filled bottles when the police officers attempted to keep watch over the location following a conflict between two teams close to a Ram temple in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad town, officers stated on Thursday.

    The incident, wherein 13 cars have been torched through the miscreants, befell all through the intervening evening of Wednesday and Thursday within the town’s Kiradpura locality that properties the well-known Ram temple, they stated.

    Ram Navami is being celebrated on Thursday.

    WATCH |

    The police used tear fuel and fired some plastic bullets in addition to are living rounds to keep watch over the mob, the officers stated, including that 8 groups had been shaped to spot and arrest the perpetrators.

    The location is now below keep watch over and safety body of workers had been deployed throughout Aurangabad, now named Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.

    “It began after two teams, each and every comprising round 5 individuals, clashed close to the Ram temple. After a while, one crew left where and the police quickly got here to the web page. After an hour, a mob amassed there, bringing stones and petrol-filled bottles alongside, which they threw on the police body of workers,” Aurangabad Police Commissioner Nikhil Gupta advised ABP Majha, a Marathi information channel.

    The road lighting fixtures within the space have been additionally broken through the miscreants, so there used to be darkness within the space, he stated.

    “We had to make use of further power to disperse the mob. They burnt police cars close to the Ram temple beside hurling stones and petrol-filled bottles on the police body of workers. The police used tear fuel broadly along side some plastic bullets and are living rounds on this case,” he stated.

    READ HERE | Clashes between teams close to Ram temple flip violent on Ram Navami eve

    “Now we have shaped 8 groups to spot the miscreants and arrest them. Now we have additionally were given further power which is now deployed within the town to care for peace. The management will hang an all-party assembly over keeping up peace,” the police commissioner stated.

    AHMEDABAD

    Violence erupted between Hindus and Muslims in Vadodara all through a Ram Navami procession within the town on Thursday. 

    When a procession led through the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal handed thru Fatepura Street with police coverage, a brawl erupted between the 2 teams close to the Panjrigar Maholla space. 

    The police arrived and surrounded the world after the conflict, say studies. Whilst some cars have been broken, nobody used to be injured, and the procession persisted alongside its deliberate direction below police coverage, in line with police. The brawlers allegedly broken two-wheelers. The police are analyzing the photos from the CCTV digicam put in on the scene for the stone pelters.

    Vadodara Deputy Commissioner of Police Yashpal Jaganiya stated,  “Some other folks had amassed when the procession handed sooner than the mosque. However they have been persuaded to depart. The realm is calm now that the procession has handed.”

    Ketan Trivedi, president of the Vadodara Bajrang Dal, advised native media that the stone-pelting used to be a part of a conspiracy. “This procession is deliberate just about annually. Regardless of this, there used to be no police presence within the space. Stones have been thrown as a part of a pre-planned conspiracy,” he said.

    READ HERE | Police deny Hindu outfit’s declare on stone-pelting all through Ram Navami procession in Vadodara

    (With inputs from Dilip Singh Kshatriya, Specific Information Provider)

  • Why is PM Narendra Modi silent on communal violence, incidents of hatred: Congress

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Hitting again at BJP president JP Nadda over his assault on opposition events, the Congress on Monday puzzled Top Minister Narendra Modi’s silence over the hot communal violence in some portions of the rustic and requested why he has no longer but denounced the incidents of hatred.

    Congress basic secretary and birthday celebration leader spokesperson Randeep Surjewala additionally requested why “perpetrators of hate have been getting political patronage”. Accusing the BJP of launching a vicious assault at the Charter and its ethos, and the establishments constructed to safeguard democracy, he stated that it and its executive are at warfare with its personal other folks.

    Surjewala’s assault got here after Nadda, in an open letter to Indians, accused the opposition of waging a “direct onslaught at the spirit of our country and casting aspersions on our hardworking electorate”. The letter was once according to leaders of rival events issuing a joint commentary attacking the federal government over incidents of hate speech and communal violence within the nation.

    ALSO READ| Jahangirpuri clashes: VHP, Bajrang Dal individuals booked for doing away with spiritual procession, one held

    Nadda stated the opposition events “attempted, examined, or I will have to say dusted and rusted manner of vote financial institution politics, divisive politics, and selective politics is now not running”.

    Sadly, this thrust against building politics is being bitterly resisted via the rejected and dejected events which can be as soon as once more taking safe haven in vote financial institution and divisive politics, the BJP leader stated in his letter.

    Responding to the open letter, Surjewala accused the BJP executive of systematically weakening the Indian Charter. “Your birthday celebration and executive proceed to feed the loads the opium of communal polarisation via inciting violence and hatred. You in truth do in an effort to distract other folks clear of the principle problems that threaten their life – value upward push, unemployment and a shattered hope for the long run,” he stated attacking Nadda.

    “Whilst portions of India are ravaged via riots and violence why is the top minister so conspicuously silent? Why does he no longer denounce hatred regardless of the place it comes from? Why do perpetrators of hate get political patronage? Why are those that incite violence rewarded and maximum of all why are formative years being incentivised to assault and abuse,” he requested in a commentary.

    ALSO READ| MP Ram Navami violence: First sufferer is a Muslim formative years brutally murdered via miscreants

    Accusing the BJP of “distorting the country’s material, he stated, “Your makes an attempt to perpetuate hate, stoke communal pressure and divide are bad for our country and our other folks.”

    Surjewala claimed that the “lies” of the BJP leader stood uncovered as its quest to hunt revenge towards India’s wonderful historical past and difficult fought freedom via “part truths and submit truths” can’t be the bedrock of a country aspiring to guide within the twenty first century.

    “The final 8 years can be marked in India’s historical past for a vicious assault towards the Charter, its ethos and each and every establishment constructed to safeguard our democracy. The BJP and its executive had been and are at warfare with its personal other folks, be it the formative years, the ladies, the deficient, the scheduled tribes, the scheduled castes, backwards and the minorities,” he stated.

    Noting that there was an “abysmal decline in core indices” underneath the 8 years of the Modi executive, the Congress chief claimed that there’s rising source of revenue inequality within the nation with the source of revenue of 84 consistent with cent Indians declining.

    He stated that there was a 53 consistent with cent drop in source of revenue for the 15 crore poorest families and by contrast, the wealth of the 100 richest Indians has surged from Rs 23 lakh crore to Rs 57 lakh crore in two years.

    Surjewala additionally attacked Nadda over the problem of emerging inflation and stated Wholesale Inflation (WPI) is raging at over 14.5 consistent with cent and costs of day by day pieces are breaking the again of the folks. The Modi executive has “robbed”other folks of Rs 26 lakh crore thru gasoline taxes, he alleged.

    Alleging that there are over 8.7 lakh vacancies within the central executive by myself and over 30 lakh in states and the centre mixed, he stated, “Your executive is popping India’s demographic dividend right into a crisis. And, it’s those unemployed youths who’re being drawn into violence and hate via the lunatic fringe components.”

    Surjewala additionally accused the BJP executive of “dishonest” farmers, announcing Top Minister Modi had promised to double their source of revenue via 2022 however their manufacturing price best were given doubled and the common source of revenue of farmers were given decreased to a paltry Rs 27 consistent with day.

    The Congress chief additionally attacked Nadda over the silence of the top minister at the border factor with China and stated he refused to even identify China whilst addressing the opposition. He additionally attacked the BJP executive of “compromising” nationwide safety and claimed there was a upward push in terrorist assaults within the nation, together with in Jammu and Kashmir, underneath its rule.

    Alleging that the BJP had an “anti-Dalit mindset”, the Congress chief stated of the 17 BJP leader ministers no longer one was once a Dalit and accused it of getting decreased the finances for Dalits as the share of centered schemes for scheduled castes out of the entire central schemes and centrally-sponsored schemes was once simply 4.4 consistent with cent.

    “Why has your executive no longer launched the OBC record, which would get advantages them? Why are minorities underneath consistent assault. Your hole, empty guarantees and blatant lies proceed to hang-out our other folks. The rustic awaits Rs 15 lakh in each and every Indian’s checking account, 16 crore jobs during the last 8 years with two crore annual jobs, doubling farmer earning via 2022 and MSP at price +50 consistent with cent, 100 good towns via 2022 and a space for everybody via 2022,” he stated.

  • UP police problems state-wide alert after Jahangirpuri violence on Hanuman Jayanti

    Via PTI

    LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh police on Saturday issued a state-wide alert after clashes broke out between two communities right through a Hanuman Jayanti procession in northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri space on Saturday.

    UP’s Further Director Normal of Police (Regulation and Order) Prashant Kumar mentioned senior officers within the box had been requested to stay an in depth watch on delicate spaces in their respective districts after Delhi’s Jahangirpuri incident.

    “The officers, particularly in districts adjacent Delhi, had been requested to stick ready to avert any roughly untoward incident any place within the state,” the officer mentioned. The officials have additionally been requested to stick cellular and take care of space domination, he mentioned.

    Violence broke out in Jahangirpuri of Delhi previous within the day allegedly after an assault on a procession, being taken out at the instance of Hanuman Jayanti.

  • Jahangirpuri clashes a ‘conspiracy’; probe function of unlawful immigrants: Delhi BJP

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP leaders on Saturday known as the clashes right through a Hanuman Jayanti procession in northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri a “conspiracy” and demanded a probe into the function of “illlegal immigrants” within the incident.

    Delhi BJP leader Adesh Gupta and birthday party MP Manoj Tiwari mentioned the “assault” at the procession used to be “no longer a spontaneous incident, however a conspiracy”.

    Clashes broke out between two communities right through the procession in Jahangirpuri on Saturday, leaving a number of police workforce injured.

    Police mentioned there used to be stone-pelting and a few cars have been additionally torched within the violence that took place at round 6 pm. Further police forces had been rushed to the area and different communally delicate spaces.

    Former AAP minister and BJP chief Kapil Mishra mentioned the stone pelting at the procession used to be a “terrorist assault” and demanded speedy expulsion of illigal immigrants from the rustic.

    The Delhi BJP president mentioned he’ll meet Union House Minister Amit Shah and urge him to reserve a probe into the violence. He additionally puzzled how the agreement of Rohingyas and Bangladeshis dwelling illegally in Delhi have been supplied water and electrical energy connections.

    “I need to ask (Leader Minister) Arvind Kejriwal why is he offering water and electrical energy to Rohingyas and Bangladeshis dwelling illegally within the town,” he mentioned in a video message.

    No speedy reaction used to be to be had from the ruling AAP executive in Delhi on Gupta’s allegations.

    The BJP chief additionally appealed to Delhiites to care for peace and added {that a} birthday party delegation will consult with the world. The responsible should be punished, he added.

    North East Delhi BJP MP Manoj Tiwari, who had previous raised the problem of unlawful immigrants dwelling within the town, mentioned the ones protective such settlers have been a “larger” danger.

    “Unlawful migrants are giant danger and want to be investigated as they’re spoiling the solidarity of our country. People who find themselves protective and serving to them settle listed here are a larger danger!,” he tweeted after the incident.

    In the meantime, Kapil Mishra, who used to be accused through the opposition for inciting violence in Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone on Ram Navami, mentioned papers of all unlawful immigrants will have to be checked they usually will have to be straight away expelled.

    “The assault on Hanuman Jayanti procession used to be no longer a ‘Sanyog’ (spontaneous) however a ‘Prayog’ (experiment). It used to be a terrorist assault. The settlements of Bangladeshi trespassers used to be now keen on assaults,” he mentioned.

    Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor additionally demanded a probe into the incident.

    Officers mentioned general safety has been stepped up in the entire last 14 police districts of the nationwide capital and technical surveillance has additionally been fastened to make sure no untoward incident takes position.

    Communal clashes had damaged out in Northeast Delhi on February 24, 2020 after violence between citizenship legislation supporters and protesters spiralled out of keep watch over, leaving no less than 53 other people lifeless and round 700 injured.

  • Communal violence throughout Ram Navami processions in two districts of MP, curfew imposed

    By way of Categorical Information Provider

    BHOPAL: Communal stress gripped a number of spaces of Khargone the town of Khargone district and Sendhwa the town of Barwani district in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh, following assaults throughout Ram Navami processions on Sunday.

    Round 8 to 10 individuals, together with 5 police officers, had been injured in Khargone the town in Khargone district. Whilst 5 to seven folks, together with two police officers, had been harm throughout the violence within the adjacent Barwani district’s Sendhwa the town.

    Whilst prohibitory orders underneath Segment 144 CrPc were imposed in all of the Khargone the town, a curfew has been imposed in some badly hit localities of Khargone the town, together with Talab Chowk, Motipura, Sanjay Nagar, Tabadi Chowk and Gaushala Marg.

    The primary incident took place within the minority neighborhood Talab Chowk house of Khargone the town simply when the Ram Navami procession was once about to move thru that communally delicate house. Stones had been pelted on the procession by means of a mob of the ones opposing enjoying loud DJ tune throughout the procession.

    Studying of the incident, a violent face-off broke between the 2 communities from Gaushala Marg, Tabadi Chowk, Sanjay Nagar and Motipura spaces of Khargone. With police workforce in Khargone now not being in ok numbers, police officers from adjacent districts had been later pressed into motion in Khargone.

    In step with unconfirmed experiences, a spot of worship was once vandalised between Talab Chowk and Gaushala Marg, whilst rioters additionally set a area on fireplace. Round 8 to 10 individuals, together with 5 police officers, amongst them SP Khargone Siddharth Chaudhary, SDOP and native police inspector had been additionally harm throughout the incident. “Curfew has been imposed in lots of spaces of Khargone the town and may well be prolonged to different spaces if the placement does not support,” native SDM SS Mujalde stated.

    In adjacent Barwani district’s communally delicate Sendhwa the town, a identical assault at the Ram Navami procession was once reported in Idgah-Jogwara Street house, when a procession of the tribals was once at the manner from Bargaon village to enroll in the primary Ram Navami procession in Sendhwa the town. As in keeping with unconfirmed experiences, later a spot of worship was once vandalised in Mausam Chowk locality.

    Incidents of the face-off between the 2 communities had been due to this fact reported from different spaces, together with Jai Hind Chowk and Kranti Chowk. Round seven folks, together with two police officers, amongst them, the inspector of the native police station was once harm.

    Swinging into motion, the Barwani district collector Shivraj Singh Verma and SP Dipak Shukla at the side of ok pressure later ensured that the primary Ram Navami procession took place peacefully in primary Sendhwa the town.

    In step with Barwani district collector Shivraj Singh Verma, the placement is completely underneath keep watch over in Sendhwa the town.

  • One killed as two Gujarat towns witness communal clashes all over Ram Navami processions

    By way of PTI

    AHMEDABAD: One individual was once killed and any other one injured in a communal conflict in Khambhat town of Gujarat all over a procession taken out at the instance of Ram Navami on Sunday, whilst Himmatnagar town within the state additionally witnessed violence between participants of 2 communities all over a identical tournament, police mentioned.

    The clashing teams indulged in stone pelting and arson at each the puts and the police needed to lob tear gasoline shells to deliver the placement beneath keep watch over, officers mentioned.

    Whilst Khambhat town is situated in Anand district, Himmatnagar lies in Sabarkantha district.

    “The frame of an unidentified guy, who seems to be round 65 years previous, was once recovered from the spot in Khambhat, the place two teams pelted each and every different with stones after a conflict broke out between them all over a Ram Navami procession overdue this afternoon,” Superintendent of Police Ajeet Rajyan mentioned.

    Someone else was once injured and a couple of store cabins had been set on hearth through the miscreants all over the incident, he mentioned, including that the placement was once later introduced beneath keep watch over the use of tear gasoline shells.

    The deceased seems to have died because of the wounds he suffered all over the conflict.

    Investigation into the incident is underway, Rajyan mentioned.

    A identical conflict was once reported in Himmatnagar and police had to make use of tear gasoline shells to keep watch over the violent mob that broken some cars and retail outlets, police mentioned.

    “Two teams clashed and pelted each and every different with stones over a Ram Navami procession. All over the melee, some individuals had been hit through stones. However the state of affairs was once introduced beneath keep watch over in a while,” Vishal Vaghela, Sabarkantha’s Superintendent of Police, mentioned.

    The agitators additionally set on hearth 3 to 4 two-wheelers. A big deployment of police staff is has been made to take care of regulation and order there, he mentioned.

    Ram Navami is well known because the birthday of Lord Ram.

  • A number of injured in communal pressure in Rajasthan’s Karauli, curfew imposed, 600 policemen deployed

    By means of PTI

    JAIPUR: Curfew used to be imposed in Karauli town of Rajasthan after communal pressure broke in the market following stone-pelting at a motorbike rally passing via a Muslim-dominated space on Nav Samvatsar, the primary day of the brand new yr beneath the Hindu calendar on Saturday, officers stated.

    Over 25 individuals had been injured within the stone-pelting, resulting in communal clashes, necessitating the imposition of the curfew and deployment of the extra police drive, they stated.

    “The curfew has been imposed within the town. An extra police drive has additionally been deployed to deal with legislation and order,” Karauli District Justice of the Peace Rajendra Singh Shekhawat stated.

    Terming the placement within the town as “hectic however beneath regulate”, he stated some incidents of arsons too happened at a number of puts.

    “Over 25 folks suffered accidents. Of them, 5 to seven are beneath remedy. One injured particular person used to be referred to a Jaipur health facility in crucial situation whilst the remaining had been discharged after number one remedy,” the police regulate room stated.

    It stated a rally used to be being taken out and when it handed via a Muslim-dominated space, some miscreants pelted stones at it, resulting in an eruption of communal clashes wherein a couple of two-wheelers and stores had been torched.

    “Law enforcement officials, together with Bharatpur IGP Prashan Kumar Khamesra and Karauli SP Shailendra Singh rushed to the spot and an extra police drive used to be deployed to regulate the placement,” the PCR stated.

    Rajasthan DGP ML Lather has additionally deployed ADG Sanjib Kumar, IG Bharat Lal Meena, Jaipur’s Crime Department DIG Rahul Prakash and DCP, Jaipur South, Mridul Kachawa in Karauli, it added.