By TCN News
Lucknow: Muslims belonging to Azamgarh are facing discrimination in getting employment and enrolling in education institutions in different parts of India. Prominent Hindi daily newspaper Dainik Hindustan published this news on the front page of their Lucknow edition on Feb. 4th.
Datelined Sanjarpur in Azamgarh and written by Dayashankar Shukl Sagar, Dainik Hindustan lists many Muslim youths of Azamgarh and their horror stories. Azamgarh youth have always gone to Delhi and Mumbai for higher education but due to the media attention on Azamgarh in the wake of Batla House encounter, they are now being treated as suspects.
Miraj Beg, a youth alleged that even MNCs are thinking twice before giving employment to Azmis. Also the overseas doors of employment are being shut on them because it is difficult to get a passport issued if the applicant is a resident of Azamgarh and happen to be Muslim. Those who manage to get passport and overseas employment face extra scrutiny at the airport.
A local intelligence officer that the Hindustan correspondent talked to acknowledged that only a few went to Pakistan for terrorist training but anyone even socially associated with these are now have become suspects themselves.
With the latest arrest by ATS of Shahbaz, Azamgarh is again back in the news and a whole new round of discrimination starts driving Muslim youth of Azamgarh further into frustration.
Original Hindustan story:
Link:
http://www.hindustandainik.com/