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New Delhi: With the beginning of the Diwali celebrations on the occasion of Dhanteras on Tuesday, a section of BJP leaders from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and constituents of its ideological parent Sangh Parivar in Madhya Pradesh have sparked a controversy demanding that Sanatanis make purchases only from their own people...
Leading the charge is the BJPs state incharge for Assam and former MP Harish Dwivedi who has urged Sanatanis to make purchasesfromonly shopkeepers belonging to their own community as an answer to extremists of another community...
Friends, you all are aware that presently, extremists with sinful mentality are calling upon (their community) to make anykindof purchase from shops belonging to people of their own community.I request all you Sanatani brothers that the correct answer to such extremists would be that you make all purchases from the shops of Sanatani brothers only.Hindu tan man Hindu jeevan..rag rag Hindu mera parichay, he wrote...
Later, Dwivedi told ThePrint that at a time when videos are going viral of members of a particular community spitting into food items and selling them, the perfect answer from Hindus will be to boycott the items being sold by members of another community...
When asked if the BJP too supports Dwivedi, a UP BJP spokesperson linked the issue with faith and cleanliness of purchased items and cited videos of members of particular community allegedly mixing food items with impurities and human faeces...
