Mangalore, May 16: Overjoyed with Narendra Modi led-BJP’s historic victory at the centre and BJP candidate Nalin Kumar Kateel’s second consecutive win in Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency, inebriated saffron activists resorted to hate crime and attacked two Masjids in separate places of the district on Friday.
Under the pretext of victory celebration a group of BJP activists, raising Hara-Hara Modi slogans stormed inside the compound of a Masjid and burst crackers at Kambalabettu in Vittla Moodnoor village of Bantwal taluk.The BJP workers damaged the window panes of the Masjid by pelting stones and destroyed a stage built to host religious programmes.Reliable sources said that at around 12:55 p.m. dozens of jubilant BJP activists reached near the Masjid from different directions including Kamblabettu and Shantinagara. They parked their vehicles and stormed into Masjid compound without any provocation.There are two Masjids in the village. The incident occurred at Muhiyuddin Juma Masjid when all Muslims had gathered at Ibrahim Khaleel Masjid for Juma prayers. It was decided to perform Juma together at one Masjid this week.The BJP activist also tried to harm the Muhiyuddin Juma Masjid Khatheeb, who was getting ready to go to Ibrahim Khaleel Masjid. However, he managed to escape from the hands of the miscreants and reached another Masjid.Following the incident, Bantwal DySP Rashmi and sleuths from Vittla police station visited the spot and tried to bring the situation under control.A case has been registered against nine people at Vittla police station in connection with the incident. Local residents identified few of the accused as Ramdas, Sunith, Ganesh, Gangadhar, Nandakumar, Harish, Vasant, Karunakar, Jagadish.SuralpadyMeanwhile, another group of miscreants, believed to be BJP activist, reportedly pelted stones at a Masjid in Suralpady near Kaikamba under the limits of Bajpe police station.
Re: BJP activists resort to vandalism, attack Masjids amidst celebrations
tbh, we don't know the whole story as to what actually happened. as a matter of fact, Muslims in India aren't that seedhaa saadhaa, Allah MiyaaN kii gaaye...sometimes they are also the trouble makers. i've lived in India and i go for visits all the time. last year, in my own city, there was a Hindu procession going through the streets demanding certain things then a Muslim procession also showed up and they had a scuffle between them...later, Muslim leaders along with some Hindu leaders, were arrested. more Muslims because they had initiated the riots by showing up there in spite of the city administration telling them not to take the procession on that day and especially in that area but no! our leaders took that as insult and not as a security issue and suffered. they later kept blaming the authorities when obviously they were wrong.
this happens on numerous occasions in different cities, especially where Muslims have a sizable in number ... even MUslims in majority Muslim neighborhoods do mischief against minority Hindus. this also happened in notorious Kareli neighborhood of Allahabad where Muslims are in majority.
Re: BJP activists resort to vandalism, attack Masjids amidst celebrations
I am from Mangalore and this city is communally very sensitive. This is the city where they bashed the girls for being in a pub. I do not know, but am hoping that this was a one-off incident. It seems that the police quickly diffused the situation...
