A Hindu family from Kandhla, Uttar Pradesh was surprised when its members appeared in BJP MP Hukum Singh’s list of Hindus ‘migrants’ who had supposedly left the region fearing persecution by a certain community. Not only does the family still live in the region, it also provides shelter to a Muslim family who settled in Kandhla after fleeing the Muzaffarnagar riots.
At number 44 in Hukum Singh’s list of 63 – himself an accused in 2013 Muzaffarnagar violence case – is the family of Sukhpal, a 49-year-old farmer, reports The Hindu. Sukhpal’s brother Yash Pal has rented a house to Fahmida, who fled from her house near Muzaffarnagar during the riots in 2013.
Sukhpal’s wife was surprised to find her family on the list when The Hindu reporter approached the house for verification of Hukum Singh’s list.
Fahmida and her 18-year-old daughter cannot imagine what her life would be, had it not been for their Hindu neighbours.
I still remember how he was the first one to offer us shelter when we did not know anybody here.Fahmida
We have formed a warm relationship. It feels comforting to have met such people after seeing so much bloodshed happening right in front of our eyes.Naziya, Fahmida’s Daughter
Singh had released a list of 346 families from Kairana and 63 families from Kandhla who fled from their particular regions.
But his claims of a “mass exodus” of Hindu families, who are threatened by Muslim gangsters in the area has turned out to be rather untrue.
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