{"id":12155,"date":"2022-04-12T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamslivenews.com\/?p=12155"},"modified":"2022-12-04T17:14:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T17:14:59","slug":"riots-over-nation-at-rama-navami-arson-violence-muslims-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamslive.com\/news\/2022\/04\/riots-over-nation-at-rama-navami-arson-violence-muslims-attacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Riots over nation at Ram Navami, arson, violence, Muslims attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two dead and 36 were injured in Ram Navami<\/a> violence on Sunday over India, with houses, and shops set on fire.<\/h2>\n

This was the first time in India that such violence was exploding on Ram Navami.\u00a0 On Sunday, violence in the Jawaharlal Nehru University<\/a> campus in Delhi erupted after a dispute over non-vegetarian food being served on campus that left several left-wing students wounded and bleeding.<\/p>\n

In other parts of India, one person was also killed in Khambat town in Gujarat\u2019s Anand district and houses, mosques, and shops were set on fire in Khargone as the communal violence, after an attack on a Ram Navami procession, spread to different parts of the city by late Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Curfew was clamped in Madhya Pradesh\u2019s Khargone city and at least 84 people were arrested there, officials said Monday. One person was also killed in Khambat town in Gujarat\u2019s Anand district while there were some reports of violence in West Bengal\u2019s Howrah district, adjoining Kolkata, after a Ram Navami procession.<\/p>\n

Khargone\u2019s superintendent of police Siddharth Choudhary was shot and around 24 other people, including six policemen, were also injured during Sunday\u2019s rioting and burning.<\/p>\n

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Madhya Pradesh took this time to order the bulldozing of “illegally acquired properties of the accused in the incident. \u201cWe have identified 50 houses and shops built in encroached government land by some of the accused. All these properties will be demolished. Five houses have already been bulldozed\u201d, a senior police officer said. During this tearing down of houses, Muslim homes were bulldozed.<\/p>\n

On Sunday night, the rioters also fought pitched battles at several places in the city. This was the second time the city has seen communal violence in a span of six months. In Gujarat, meanwhile, the police arrested nine people for violence and stone-pelting during a Ram Navami procession at Khambat in Anand district, in which one person was killed on Sunday, while Section 144 CrPC was imposed in Himmatnagar town of Sabarkantha district after a similar incident there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation in Khambhat town is under control. We have already arrested nine suspects and started further investigations,\u201d SP Ajit Rajian said. Police sources said those arrested include some local maulvis. A similar stone-pelting incident was also reported during a Ram Navami procession in Sendhwa town of MP\u2019s Barwani district where a police station in-charge and five others were injured.<\/p>\n

The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) alleged that the minority community leaders and left-liberals are to be blamed for \u201cattacks\u201d across the country on people celebrating Ram Navami.<\/p>\n

It was unfortunate such violence took form in this festival and sources felt it was pre-planned.\u00a0 Shree Rama Navami is a Hindu festival that celebrates the birthday of Shree Rama, the seventh avatar of the deity Bhagwan Vishnu. Rama is particularly important in the Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism<\/p>\n

However, in BJP ruled Madhya Pradesh, a massive crowd of Hindu radicals with swords, axes danced in front of a mosque, singing songs mockingly, hailing god Ram, and chanting in an incendiary manner waving swords before the mosque, to the Muslims who stood quietly watching them with police being silent spectators.<\/p>\n

On speaking about the violence, BJP Spokesperson Sanju Verma and Congress Spokesperson Gurdeep Sappal share a heated argument and while BJP Spokesperson Sanju Verma says that the Hindus were attacked, Spokesperson Gurdeep Sappal said that all these years, Ram Navami was being celebrated peacefully and are these first-time Hindus celebrating the festival that they made such a ruckus and were provocative.?<\/p>\n

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Ram Navami violence: What triggered the clashes?
BJP Spokesperson Sanju Verma and Congress Spokesperson Gurdeep Sappal join the discussion.
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