“Idhar har ghar mein machhi khate hai, aur har ghar mein mandir bhi hai. Toh kya har ghar se mandir hata dena chahiye (Each home on this space consumes fish and so they have a temple at their home as effectively. Ought to they take away the temple then),” requested Jaideep Das (54), a fish vendor in Chittaranjan Park’s Market 1.
Das and several other others have discovered themselves in the midst of a nationwide political slugfest with Trinamool Congress MP from West Bengal, Mohua Moitra, sharing a video on social media on Tuesday, through which a person may be seen telling these current on the market that “a fish market sharing a wall with a temple was hurting sentiments of Sanatanis”.
She had alleged the lads have been related to the BJP. The BJP, nevertheless, had denied the fees.
The video shared by Moitra was posted on an Instagram account referred to as ‘The Rashtra Dharma’. Some movies posted on the channel are important of the AAP whereas others present a gaggle of males defacing signage in Central Delhi – posters that learn Maharana Pratap Highway have been pasted on signage for Akbar Highway.
“Now we have been available in the market for nearly 40 years. In the event that they take away us, the place will we go… We pray on the temple within the morning after which open our retailers” Jaideep stated.
Sujit Das (38), who owns one of many oldest retailers available in the market, sees the problem as nothing however politics as West Bengal elections are scheduled subsequent yr. “Since yesterday, we have now been assured by leaders from all events that nothing will occur to the market,” he stated.
“These folks have come twice to this market: as soon as on March 11 or 12 and the second time in the midst of Navratri, on April 5 or 6,” stated Dibiendu Das (46), who owns the oldest store within the fish market. “They have been saying we’re Sanatanis. I instructed them, I’m additionally a Sanatani.”
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“If folks had an issue with a fish market being situated in addition to a temple, may it have survived for 60 years,” requested Sanjib Bhattacharya (60), a priest on the Kali temple since 2000.
Chittaranjan Park, popularly referred to as C R Park, is a South Delhi locality with predominantly Bengali residents, which was set as much as accommodate refugees.
In a video posted on X on Wednesday, Moitra stated, “You may see how, in broad daylight, with full impunity and audacity, the BJP’s goons are threatening shopkeepers and telling them they will’t have their retailers in CR Park… Is the BJP going to inform us what we’re going to eat and the place we must always have our retailers?”
Chatting with The Indian Specific, she added, “See the audacity of these goons available in the market. Now we have a constitutional proper. Why have these goons not been arrested? Why have the goons not been recognized… To reside on this nation, will we now must eat solely dhoklas, mushrooms, makhana, and chant Jai Shri Ram thrice a day?”
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Slamming the BJP, Moitra stated, “Now we have at all times maintained that the BJP isn’t for Hindus. These are Hindu shopkeepers being terrorised.”
In response to Moitra’s publish, former MLA from Better Kailash and Delhi AAP president Saurabh Bharadwaj stated: “These fish retailers have been allotted by DDA, this isn’t any unlawful encroachment. If BJP had drawback with CR Park Bengalis consuming fish, they need to have stated so of their manifesto.”
A senior Delhi Police officer stated the lads within the video are but to be recognized. “Now we have not acquired any complaints in opposition to the lads to this point, however we’re trying into the matter,” the officer added.
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva had on Tuesday requested the police to take strict motion in opposition to the culprits.
“Everybody ought to respect the sanctity of temples, and right here at CR Park, fish market merchants have at all times revered temples. Fish markets have been legally allotted and are wanted within the space. The fish merchants keep a excessive degree of cleanliness within the space and take common half within the socio-religious actions of CR Park,” he had stated.
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“The video posted on social media by Mohua Moitra appears to have been tailor-made by folks with vested political pursuits to disturb group concord in CR Park. We strongly condemn the incident and request Delhi Police to take stern motion,” he added.
