Kasganj :Why raise anti-Pakistan slogans in Muslim areas ? Bareilly DM asks in FB
Lucknow, Jan 30 (IBNS) : As Kasganj in Uttar Pradesh struggles to limp back to normal after last week's communal clashes, an IAS officer has created a stir with a Facebook post, asking why people should take out processions in Muslim areas and raise anti-Pakistan slogans.
"A strange tradition has emerged. To visit Muslim areas and raise slogans against Pakistan. Why, are they (Muslims) Pakistanis)?” RV Singh, District Magistrate of Bareilly wrote on Sunday.
A 23-year-old man was killed after a communal violence broke out in the small town, nearly 340 km off Lucknow on Friday.
According to reports, the clashes broke out after a group of men took out a ‘Tiranga Yatra’ in the Muslim-dominated Baddu Nagar area on Republic Day.
Over hundred people have been arrested on charges of murder and violence.
Meanwhile the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has sought a report on the Kasganj incidents from the Uttar Pradesh Government.
Singh, who took charge as the DM of Bareilly in 2017, was a commissioned officer in the Indian Army.
Singh also wrote about a similar incident in Khelam area of Bareilly last year when a group of kanwariyas or the devotees of Lord Shiva went through a Muslim-dominated village and allegedly raised slogans against Pakistan.
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