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An angry mob of around two dozen young Hindu men stormed the village panchayat bhawan and called him mullah (a term for Muslim cleric used as a slur) and aatankwadi (terrorist)...
Hundreds of village panchayats in Mahendragarh, Rewari, and Jhajjar signed hate letters that came from Gurugram about a week after the violence in Nuh on 31 July..
Although these meetings made the village heads withdraw their hateful resolutions against Muslims letters and issue apology videos, Sudhir continues to justify them.The hate panchayats had attracted little national scrutiny in recent months until Nuh, but they are symptoms of ballooning Hindu anxieties and anger against Muslims spiralling across rural Haryana..
Villagers had travelled miles in their tractors, bikes, andFortunersto demand the release of four men arrested for killing a 19-year-old Imam in Tigra villages only mosque after the Nuh Violence...
Soon, the meeting resounded with calls for aneconomic boycott of Muslims.Although the police registered cases against two speakers for delivering hate speeches, no arrests have been made so far..
