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Publication: The Asian Age
Date: February 15, 2001
Tension gripped the Muslim-dominated
Khajurikhas area of northeast district on Tuesday morning following the
RSS insistence on holding its shakha meeting at the Ram Lila Grounds. However,
the Delhi police claimed that the situation was under control.
The incident took place when the
local residents of the area objected to the activities of the RSS men,
who are also believed to have chanted some slogans objectionable to the
Muslims residing in the area. The Muslim residents of the area panicked
when they saw 150 RSS men in the area. The residents then decided to ask
the RSS men not to hold their shakha meeting there.
This resulted in tension in the
area. A large posse of policemen had to come in to bring the situation
under control. The residents of the area alleged that the RSS men were
unnecessarily trying to create communal tension in the area by slogan-shouting.
They also claim that the activists wanted to organise the meeting at a
time when Muslims offer their morning namaz. However, the RSS activists
have denied all these allegations made by the Muslims of the area.
They claim that they have been holding
their meetings at the Ram Lila Grounds for the past 10 years. Later, senior
Delhi police officials reached the area and asked the RSS activists to
stop slogan-shouting But the Delhi police officials told the residents
that they cannot object to the activists holding a shakha meeting there.
The reason being that neither the
RSS was an organisation banned nor were they, holding their meeting at
any prohibited place. Talking to The Asian Age, the deputy commissioner
of police, northeast district, Mr S.K. Gautam, said: "There was no communal
tension at all."
