Yogi govt begins hunting radical Muslims who are chasing out Hindus from Noorpur village

A day after the news of the exodus of Hindus from the Noorpur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh district went viral on social media platforms — the Yogi Adityanath administration quickly sprang into action and lodged a complaint against 11 perpetrators who were absconding at the moment. The minority community tried to lodge the complaint as well but could not get through the authorities, according to a report by Amar Ujala.

Yesterday afternoon, Aligarh MP Satish Gautam, Hathras, MP Rajveer Diler and Khair MLA Anoop Pradhan all reached the village to take stock of the situation. The Police, however, claimed that the situation had reverted to normal in the village.

“Some families had said that they can no longer reside in the village. The SDM and the Police CO have visited the village & now the situation in normal there,” Aligarh SP (Rural) Shubham Patel was quoted as saying.

As reported by TFI, the recent flashpoint in the relations between the two communities came on May 26 when a baraat procession of a villager named Omprakash and his daughters was stopped when passing through the village near the mosque. According to Omprakash’s statements, some miscreants of the Muslim community started pelting stones on the procession — vandalising the entire festivities in the process.

“We were intercepted by people from the minority community; they objected to the procession. Our community has faced oppression on many occasions — they try and stop our wedding processions. When we tried to reason, they attacked and beat us. It was humiliating to face this on my daughter’s wedding day. I also received injuries,” Omprakash had said.

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Troubled by the nuisance of the hoodlums of the ‘minority’ community, the Hindus including Dalits had been forced to put up ‘House for Sale’ boards in front of their homes.

Some media reports have quoted the villagers as saying that the people of the Muslim community also pressurise the Hindus to convert into their faith. It is the conversion that has allowed the traditionally Hindu dominated village to be overpopulated by the Muslim community. There are three mosques and a big madrasa in a village which has sprung into existence only recently.

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Noorpur isn’t the only village where Hindus being forced to flee their homes in fear of Islamists. TFI had recently reported how in Telangana’s Bhainsa town, at least three Muslims were caught trying to instigate communal violence by themselves writing ‘Jai Shree Ram’ on the walls of a mosque.

The Yogi Adityanath government has taken decisive action in lodging the complaint but the hard task begins now of rehabilitating the displaced Hindu households and making sure that no such untoward and communal incident happens in the future.