Nuh Violence: Hindu organisations claim they will still hold their “shobha yatra” in Haryana’s Nuh today despite the authorities’ refusal to allow any sort of gathering in the area due to its sensitivity to communal tension. On July 31, when a Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) parade was disrupted by rioters, riots erupted in Muslim-majority Nuh, killing six people. Two house guards and a priest were among the deceased. The Haryana government has increased security in the area as a result of the resistance by stationing 1,900 members of the Haryana Police and 24 companies of paramilitary forces at interstate and interdistrict borders.
Seer’s Determined Fast in Protest Against Rally Ban
“I have come here from Ayodhya…The administration has stopped us here, they are not allowing us to move ahead nor they are allowing us to go back. So I am doing fast until death. If they (the administration) will shift me somewhere else, I will do fast until death there also,” said Seer Jagadguru Paramhans Acharya Maharaj, as quoted by news agency ANI. Due to the G20 Sherpa Group meeting in Nuh from September 3–7 and the necessity to uphold peace and order in the wake of the incident on July 31, the state administration declined authorization for the yatra. Prohibitory orders have been enforced throughout the district as a precaution. Entry is prohibited from the outside, banks and educational institutions are shuttered, and bulk SMS and mobile internet services have been halted. In the neighbourhood where there were racial incidents in July, an assembly of four or more persons has also been outlawed. At the Sohna toll in Gurugram, police officers are thoroughly inspecting automobiles. As part of the administration’s security measures, the Haryana Police stop and search every car passing through the toll. On their way to Nuh, two seers from Ayodhya claim that they were halted at a toll booth.
Hindu Group Urges Resumption of Yatra Amidst Previous Unrest
The ‘Sarv Jatiya Hindu Mahapanchayat’ demanded on August 13 that the yatra resume today after being stopped by racial violence in July. Manohar Lal Khattar, the chief minister of Haryana, suggested on Sunday that instead of taking part in the parade for which permission had been denied by the government, people go to adjacent temples and make prayers. The final Monday of the holy month of Shravan falls on August 28 in accordance with the Hindu calendar. “Instead of a ‘yatra‘, people can visit temples in their areas for ‘jalabhishek‘,” Chief Minister Khattar said. In relation to the communal conflicts, 393 persons have been detained in custody thus far, and 118 have been placed in preventive detention.
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