In recent clashes 2 persons killed, dozens others wounded, 60 Muslim houses, shops were burnt down 

By MD Mesha

NEW DELHI, India (TSAT) - The Indian authorities launched an anti-Muslim operation in several states to demolish their properties after recent clashes between Hindu militants groups and Muslims.

According to local media, the local authorities in Rajasthan, Madya Pradesh, and Gujrat have demolished dozens of shops of Muslims during the last three days and accused them were part of attacks on RSS/BJP affiliated groups on eve of their new year celebrations. 

A video posted on Twitter by prominent Indian civil rights activist and professor Ashok Swain shows that Indian police demolished shops of Muslims in Gujrat, the hometown of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

“Police in Gujarat, India bulldozing Muslim properties accusing them of instigating an anti-Muslim riot! No law, no Justice, no logic,” Swain wrote on Twitter. 

Gujrat police also arrested three local religious leaders and accused them to pelted on RSS rallies last week. 

The clashes and attacks on Muslims started last week when the Hindus celebrated their new year, Ram Navami, and held rallies across the country.

During rallies, the Hindu militant organization RSS, and affiliated groups attacks on Mosques in different areas that causing violence in several states. 

The ruling BJP party is the political wing of RSS. 

According to Indian journalist Hrish Raj Anand, 60 houses, and shops were burnt down only in Karauli, in Rajasthan. 

While so far, the Indian authorities didn’t share details of casualties and property losses during clashes across the country. 

But reports suggest that hundreds of houses and shops were burnt down and at least two people were killed and over 100 wounded in Gujrat, Madhya Paresh, UP, West Bengal, and Rajasthan states. 

The Indian Muslim leaders claimed that the violence was pre-planned to target Muslims on Ram Navami procession days. 

Anis Ahmed, General Secretary of the Popular front of India, a Muslim organization in India accused the RSS was behind the violence and demanded to set up an independent judicial commission for investigation. 

He also accused the Indian media and its journalists of spreading hatred against the Muslim and avoiding reporting the ground realities. 

“The journalists promote hate against Muslims everyday know it very well that their action directlys lead to murder of Muslims. There are journos who are pure Sanghis but there are many who do it only as a channel policy and TRP. I wonder how they see themselves in mirror? Anis questioned.

On Friday, a local leader of the A leader of Popular Front of India, Zubair Para was killed in Kerala’s Palakkad district when he was on his way back to home from Friday prayer along with his father. 

His father was wounded in the attack. 

“Today our brother Zubair from Palakkad, Kerala acheived martyrdom. He was killed by RSS goons while returning from Jummah prayers. Zubair  was area leader of PFI. Shaheed never dies,” Anis tweeted. 

Meanwhile, the Indian police in Uttar Pradesh, where the hardliner BJP is ruling, arrested two Muslim boys in connection of listening to Pakistani songs. 

According to their relatives, the boys were listening to Pakistani songs, and local Hindu neighbors called the police to arrest them. 

“The two cousins of aged 16 and 17, were arrested because they were listening to a song and later speech of Pakistan former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a rally in his country,” a local journalist in UP told the TSAT, requested not to be named because police could also file a case against him. 

A US-based journalist Ayesha Khan, who is covering the US Muslims said that Indian journalists could not report on Hindu nationalism because of fear of action from the Indian government. 

“Why isn't there more robust reporting on Hindu nationalism in U.S. media? One reason: Many Indian journalists in the U.S. can't afford to run afoul of the Indian government. Publishing a piece critical of the BJP could mean you can't travel home to see your ailing parents,” she wrote on Twitter.