A loudspeaker perched atop an auto-rickshaw in Nuh announces on the loop that soon there will be an end to “terror of cow vigilantes”, claiming that the Congress is coming to power in Haryana after a decade. Khan was arrested on September 14 last year on charges of spreading fake news related to communal riots in Nuh the previous month, …
The rally is yet to begin, but the sabzi mandi ground in Alwar is buzzing; men in motorcycles with Bharatiya Janata Party flags tied to their rearview mirrors arrive in raucous droves; organisers mill around the dais, asking the teeming crowd to take their seats; and the occasional slogan rents the air. Once the dust settles, and people begin to …
