There have been allegations that Hindus from Kairana village in Shamli district in western Uttar Pradesh were forced to leave their homes by people from another community. The National Executive meet was attended by Prime Minister Modi, Shah and other senior leaders of the party.
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The BJP has formed a party panel which will visit Kairana and will submit a report in this regard to the party president. However, UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav had accused BJP leaders of being “dishonest” and “lying” on the issue.
Shah also said that the Congress was getting increasingly weakened while attributing BJP’s “rise” to its ideology, commitment of party workers and hard work of its leaders.
BJP MP Hukum Singh, who had claimed mass exodus of Hindu families from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district, on Tuesday released another list of 63 persons who had fled from neighbouring Kandhala but stressed that it was not a communal issue but of law and order. Junior home minister Kiren Rijiju called the incidents unfortunate, “if they are true”.
He exuded confidence that the BJP will emerge victorious in the Manipur State Assembly election to be held next year. The BJP won 71 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
The Kairana MP had earlier released a list of 346 families who had been forced to flee the town, which has 85 per cent Muslim population.
The chief minister responded angrily when some television channels picked Singh’s remarks to give Kairana a Kashmir twist. “There is not one accused (who forced people to migrate), they are here in dozens”, Singh said, adding that from the names of accused, “one can grasp who are these people”.
“The entire government machinery was being misused to twist the matter to prove me wrong”, he said.
“It is shocking that this kind of misinformation is going around about me and my family”, Jain told The Hindu.
One member of the four teams which were constituted by the District Magistrate of Shamli, Sujeet Kumar, to investigate the claims, said that “only 15-20 families were found to have migrated from Kairana apparently due to fear of the local criminals and not Muslims”.
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He also trained his guns against district administration saying that it is forcing the families to record their statement against their will and just to belie his list released earlier. “They moved out because of economic reasons”, he told PTI.
