‘Did God send these?’ — BJP ‘bulldozer rally’ ahead of Yogi’s Sirsa visit invites Congress barbs

Gurugram: To seek votes for its Lok Sabha candidate Ashok Tanwar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) organised a bulldozer rally in Sirsa Sunday a day ahead of Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanaths scheduled rally in the constituency stirring controversy in the process...

While Selja has termed the bulldozer rally an intimidation tactic, a political analyst ThePrint spoke to saw it as an attempt to vitiate the atmosphere by reminding people of the Nuh violence, after which bulldozers were used to raze a number of buildings linked to those from the Muslim community who were suspected to be involved in the violence...

As hundreds of bulldozers and JCB machines with saffron flags atop drove through roads and streets across Sirsa town Sunday, the BJP also issued a press note and released pictures from the official email address of the Haryana BJP, haryanabjpnews@gmail.com, under the headline Bulldozer Baba Ke Aane Se Pahle Bulldozermay Hua Sirsa Shehar (Sirsa town brimming with bulldozers ahead of bulldozer babas visit)...

In Haryana, bulldozers came into the picture when the then BJP-JJP government led at the time by former CM Manohar Lal Khattar bulldozed several homes, shops, and office complexes in the aftermath of communal violence that broke out inNuh district last July...

Meanwhile, Mahabir Jaglan, a political analyst from Haryana told ThePrint that everyone knew that bulldozers were used as a tool of suppression of the Muslims in Uttar Pradesh, and in Haryana this was used to bulldoze properties of the Muslim community in Nuh after the communal violence last year...

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