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BJP refuses to let facts get in the way of the 'Hindu exodus' story in Kairana an hour ago Updated an hour ago Rohan Venkataramakrishnan Exit Right As far as the Bharatiya Janata Party is concerned, the town of Kairana has been the site of a Hindu exodus over the past two years, prompted by Muslim criminals who rule the roost in the area. Never mind that the source of the story, BJP Member of Parliament Hukum Singh, has since asserted that his claims of a mass migration are not based on communal issues. Never mind that district authorities have found that only three families out of Singh's list of 346 left because of the threat of violence. And don't even ask about the fact that many of those on the list are still living in the town, or left decades ago for better jobs or education. For the BJP, this evidently untrue claim of a town under siege from Muslim criminals is the perfect example of what it wants Hindus to believe about Uttar Pradesh under the Samajwadi Party. So it's determined to create the impression and sell the narrative, even if its own MPs are saying otherwise. "We are scouting for other ‘Kairanas’ in the state, where similar migration has taken place," a party leader told The Hindu. A perfect illustration of the BJP template: Member of Parliament Sangeet Som wants to go on a padyatra across Western Uttar Pradesh "to make people safe". Som, in case anyone has forgotten, is an accused in the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots. So concerned are others by his threat of a padyatra that the Samajwadi Party has announced a counter padyatra. Even Hukum Singh – the MP whose flawed list is the foundation of the Kairana story – asked Som not to undertake his Padyatra. "I do not want him to stir the communal pot in Kairana,” Singh told The Hindu. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the BJP's Uttar Pradesh campaign last week, he gave his party workers a list of seven principles to abide by. Truth does not appear to be one of them. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
