On July 31, violence broke out against Hindu devotees who took part in Brijmandal Jalabhishek Yatra in Haryana’s Nuh. The Yatra was halted due to the riots by Islamists, however, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) stated that it would go ahead with the Yatra on August 28, following the same route. A day before the Yatra posters emerged in the slum area in Gurugram’s Sector 69 area that threatened Muslims to vacate the area by August 28 or face consequences. The concluding statements mentioned VHP and Bajrang Dal.
According to a report by the Hindi daily Bhaskar, the Gurugram police disclosed that the posters, which had appeared in Sector 69 a day before the second Jalabhishek Yatra and contained threats for Muslims to vacate the area, were actually posted by a scrap dealer named Asif. And that the police have arrested Asif who confessed his crime.
This created an opportunity for Islamists and left-leaning media, who once again seized upon the situation to depict Muslims as victims and Hindus as the instigators. Nearly all leftist media platforms, which had previously dedicated significant efforts during the Nuh unrest to align themselves with Islamists in assigning blame to the victims following the outbreak of violence against devotees, eagerly embraced this news to further their ‘Dara Hua Musalman’ narrative.
The New Indian Express, TOI, and ThePrint, among others, had covered the emergence of these posters before VHP’s Sobha Yatra.
While the body of the article mentioned Mojed’s suspicion of Asif falsely planting the poster to intimidate him and incite violence in the area, these media outlets ensured that the headline was crafted in such a way that it initially seemed as though VHP was indeed targeting the ‘innocent’ Muslim residents of Gurugram sector-69 as an act of retaliation. For instance, the TNIE headline stated: “Posters appear asking Muslims to ‘leave Gurugram or face the heat’ prior to VHP’s ‘Shobha yatra’.”
These reports quoted Mojed as saying that the posters carried the names of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal and asked all Muslims to vacate their houses and shops by August 28 or be ‘responsible for their death.’
The Islamist-oriented social media channel, Muslim Spaces, expressed solidarity with the Muslim residents who, according to their claims, were compelled to leave after the menacing posters appeared ahead of the VHP Sobha Yatra. Their post on X, formerly known as Twitter, stated, “Migrant Muslim labourers were threatened and instructed to abandon their makeshift shelters within 2 days, or else they would face the risk of being burned alive.”
In essence, by pinpointing that the posters threatening Muslims surfaced just before VHP’s Sobha Yatra, the Islamist and leftist media subtly aimed to insinuate that Hindu organizations were responsible for them.
Upon investigation, Asif, a local scrap dealer, admitted to placing the poster outside Mojed’s residence and scrapyard due to business rivalry. Asif informed the police that following the Nuh violence, Hindu organizations announced their plan to visit the Nalhareshwar temple in Nuh on August 28 for Jalabhishek, creating a tense atmosphere. Seizing this opportunity, Asif conceived the idea of posting menacing notices outside other scrap dealers’ establishments and residences to intimidate them and secure a business monopoly.
Asif acknowledged that he was aware of the anger within Hindu organizations stemming from the violence during the Brijmandal Yatra in Nuh on July 31, and deliberately invoked their names on the posters.
Significantly, Asif came to the attention of the police after Mojed mentioned in his complaint that Asif had threatened him two days before the posters appeared.
Interestingly, following the orchestrated violence by Islamists on July 31, the liberal media adopted a similar approach and made concerted efforts to portray Muslims as victims. OpIndia published an extensive article detailing how the ultra-leftist media portal, The Caravan, framed the Nuh Violence as ‘anti-Muslim’ and placed blame on Hindus. Regrettably for them, the specifics disclosed in FIRs unequivocally revealed the truth, dismantling the elaborate edifice of falsehoods they had painstakingly constructed.
Likewise, Maktoob media, an Islamist portal known for its attempts to defend Islamists during incidents like the JNU violence following anti-CAA protests and the Delhi anti-Hindu riots, and for its consistent dissemination of fake news, had released two articles on the matter that sought to portray the Islamists, who were the true instigators, as victims. OpIndia had authored an extensive report debunking this misleading narrative propagated by the media platform.
Nuh Violence
On July 31, an Islamist mob pelted stones at a Hindu religious procession in Haryana’s Nuh district. The devotees gathered to attend the procession, which covered temples in the district. Many media reports have revealed that the attack was pre-planned, as the locals were angry over a cow vigilante joining the procession. The other trigger point is assumed to be the state government’s action against cow smugglers.
It is noteworthy that while searching documents relating to the violence, Organiser accessed as many as fifteen FIRs where the victims revealed the horrors of the day. Some said attackers were chanting Pakistan Zindabad and Allah Hu Akbar slogans.
As per the media reports, from July 21 to 23, miscreants held meetings in parts of the city to prepare for the attack. WhatsApp groups were formed to coordinate, people were designated leaders and assigned responsibilities, and stones were gathered and assembled.
The attackers also collected glass bottles of cold drinks and fuel to use them as petrol bombs. More than 200 motorcycles were marked for use, and their number plates were painted black so that they would not be identified by police in any footage.
Ahead of the procession, Islamists took shelter in the hills with weapons and stones. These miscreants stayed there the whole night near the Nalhar temple, the focal point of the procession.
