‘Hindus have changed’: A sleepy Indian state becomes anti-Muslim tinderbox
Al JazeeraThe northeastern state of Tripura does not have a history of inter-religious clashes. Bhanupada Chakraborty, who was North Tripura district’s superintendent of police at that time, however, said that police did not target anyone specifically, and Alfeshani’s cause of death is “under investigation”. Sudip Roy Barman, a legislator from the opposition Congress party, said that violence in Kadamtala was “state- When reached for comment, Chakraborty, the then-superintendent of North Tripura’s police, told Al Jazeera: “I am not the right person to speak with the press.” Al Jazeera’s calls to the Tripura police chief, Amitabh Ranjan, were not answered. However, that number has risen sharply since, with Hindu groups trying to “foment communal sentiments” in about a dozen instances since 2018, Uddin, the lawmaker from the Communist Party of India, said. “Muslims who account for 70 percent of customers in the market now do not want to buy anything from a Hindu shop,” Khan, whose shop was set ablaze by a Hindu mob, said.
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