No one dares scare away anyone from Kairana

  • | Wednesday | 13th February, 2019

Later in the evening, he also tweeted, “Today no one dares scare away anyone from Kairana and Kandhla . MUZAFFARNAGAR: Barely months away from the 2019 General Elections, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath raked up the Kairana exodus issue during his speech in the state assembly on Monday. The government has decided to install a PAC company between Kairana and Kandhla.”The CM’s remarks came almost two years after the then BJP MP Hukum Singh had alleged that fear of Muslim criminals was driving Hindus out his constituency -- Kairana. A day later, Singh, however, changed his narrative and attributed the reason for “exodus” to deteriorating law and order situation. Rashtriya Lok Dal candidate Tabassum Hasan, who was supported by both SP and BSP, defeated Hukum Singh’s daughter Mriganka Singh in the bypoll.

MUZAFFARNAGAR: Barely months away from the 2019 General Elections, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath raked up the Kairana exodus issue during his speech in the state assembly on Monday. Later in the evening, he also tweeted, “Today no one dares scare away anyone from Kairana and Kandhla . The government has decided to install a PAC company between Kairana and Kandhla.”The CM’s remarks came almost two years after the then BJP MP Hukum Singh had alleged that fear of Muslim criminals was driving Hindus out his constituency -- Kairana. Singh’s allegation, made in the run up to UP assembly elections held between February and March, 2017, became a major poll issue. However, in May 2018 bypolls necessitated by the death of Hukum Singh, UP got its first Muslim MP in Tabassum Hasan who beat, ironically, Mriganka Singh -- the daughter of the man who raised the exodus issue.Giving details of the PAC camp in Kairana, Shamli superintendent of police Ajay Kumar said, “To build the PAC camp, 75-acre land has been identified. A firing range will also be built in the area.” The SP added that a thousand PAC personnel will be deployed in the region to help maintain law and order whenever required.In June 2016, then Kairana MP Hukum Singh had kicked up a political storm after he produced a list of 250 Hindu families who had allegedly migrated out of Kairana because of “pressure from the other community”. A day later, Singh, however, changed his narrative and attributed the reason for “exodus” to deteriorating law and order situation. The BJP accused the Samajwadi Party of pursuing minorities appeasement policies and the issue turned into a promise in the BJP’s election manifesto for the 2017 UP assembly polls. The BJP leaders pledged to “establish rule of law again in Kairana”.Later, a team of the National Human Right Commission also visited the area and prepared a report on the issue claiming that exodus were indeed a reality.In February 2018, BJP MP Hukum Singh died after a long illness and bypoll was held in Kairana in May 2018. Rashtriya Lok Dal candidate Tabassum Hasan, who was supported by both SP and BSP, defeated Hukum Singh’s daughter Mriganka Singh in the bypoll.

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