Gopalganj tense, madrasa put on fire by ‘idol processionists’
Submitted by admin7 on 5 February 2009 - 12:15am
By Mudassir Rizwan, TwoCircles.net reporter,
Patna: A madrasa called Insaful Uloom and some houses of Muslims were put on fire today in Pathan Patti area of Barauli Police Station in Bihar’s Gopalganj district allegedly by a mob of thousands of processionists who were taking idols for immersion through a route never used for that purpose.
Eyewitness talks to TwoCircles.net:
In the ensuing clash between the two communities some people including some policemen have reportedly sustained injuries. A police sub-inspector is reported to have died of heart attack immediately after the incident.
Locals told TwoCircles.net that the idols of Hindu deity Saraswati was immersed some days back but people from five villages did not immerse their idols and were adamant to take them through the Muslim area which was never used for immersion procession. On that route fall a mosque and Madrasa Insaful Uloom. Village head had already written to authorities that the route should not be used. However, they remained adamant.
Today around 1 pm a mob of more than 10 thousand processionists from the five villages gathered at a place and proceeded with the idols to the route which was prohibited. The administration was aware of the situation as the news about growing tension in the area was coming in the local media for some days. But they did not do enough to keep the anti-social elements from executing their plan. Today the police force was deployed in the area. Yet, as soon as the mob reached Muslim area, they attacked the madrasa and put it on fire. They also put on fire some huts of Muslims, which followed stone pelting from the two sides and some people including policemen were injured. Some students of the madrasa were also injured while their belongings were burnt.
To control the situation security forces have been called in from neighboring districts of Muzaffarpur and Motihari. Senior police officers are camping in the area.
The area falls in Barauli Vidhan Sabha constituency which is currently represented by BJP MLA Ram Parvesh Singh, who is also state tourism minister. People say what happened today was well planned and executed keeping in view the coming Lok Sabha elections.
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This is a bogus article. The
This is a bogus article. The trouble started when muslims objected against the procession and started throwing homemade fireboms at the police and the procession members. If muslims have a problem with Hindu processions going through their neighboorhood what are they doing living in India??? India is a free country. Muslims objecting to a hindu procession clearly exposes how intolerable they are
madarsa put on fire by idolporcessioists
burning of madarsa or demolition of mosques . killing and raping minorities including christians are the political agenda of so called Hindu zeleaouts in power, the silence of indian mass as wel as print media gives a shadow image to the society, specialy during the elction season minoritees are being terrorized in the name of religion, IS THIS THE SUSASHAN MR NITISH CLAIMED OF ?? As long as Brahmins are in power minoritees will have to suffer.
these events are nothing new for the indian muslims, whether they are in gopalganj or bhopal, they have to raise the sky high and keep the things in equillibrium.
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