Rising tomato prices: The latest weapon against Muslims in India
Al Jazeera“Who are the people who have increased the prices of vegetables now?” Himanta Biswa Sarma, the chief minister of the northeast Indian state of Assam asked rhetorically when speaking to reporters about the surging cost of vegetables in state capital Guwahati — and indeed, around India. “It is Miya sellers who are selling vegetables at higher rates,” he claimed, referring to Assam’s Bengali-speaking Muslims, who have lived in the state for generations but are accused by Sarma’s Bharatiya Janata Party and its Hindu right-wing ideological allies of being illegal Bangladeshi migrants. If the Jews weren’t “German” in the eyes of the Nazis, Miya Muslims aren’t “Assamese”, according to Sarma. What Sarma is telling Assamese Hindus is that Miya Muslims — who constitute 30 percent of the state’s population — not only control their lives, but are destroying the state.
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