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Final phase of voting in Uttar Pradesh today. Sharing a🧵of my reports. First, a special series we started on #EverydayCommunalism in UP. Detailed ground reports to establish how large-scale riots have been replaced by low-key but sustained acts of communal violence and hate.
How BJP Youth Morcha office bearers used the death of a Hindu woman in Agra as a pretext to attack Muslims and damage their shops
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I went back to Kasganj, to revisit how a minor altercation over a Republic Day celebration here turned into a city-wide riot. Local cadre or small players are used as the primary vehicle to dispense this violence, often leaving them reduced to mere pawns.
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Remember the 'Covid Jihad' propaganda run by mainstream media? Muslims in UP suffered hugely as a result. From pregnant Muslim women denied hospital entry, to Muslim-run businesses taking a hit as they're viewed with suspicion.
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Fauzia, a weaver in Varanasi, was forced to deliver outside BHU hospital, as they wouldn't admit her, accusing her of "bringing Covid". Finally, when the nurse agreed to do her stitches, the taunts continued: "why do you people keep having babies"

Story:
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On Ahmad's first day out after lockdown, a group yelled at him: "Miyan, where are you going about spitting and spreading Covid?"

“After that, it became difficult to even stand at a non-Muslim shop worried about the kind of taunts that could come my way"
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