By News Desk
Hindutva Muzaffarnagar leader Swami Yashveer Maharaj and his supporters were stopped by Uttarakhand Police from entering Haridwar at the Narsan checkpost on the UP-Uttarakhand border, on Friday, July 4.
The incident occurred during his Pehchaan Abhiyaan movement, a campaign aimed at identifying Muslim eatery owners through Aadhaar card verification along the Kanwar yatra route.
“Tum kaun lagte Aadhaar maangne waale? (Who are you to demand Aadhaar cards?),” police officials ask Yashveer Maharaj and his supporters. They also clarified it could have led to a law and order condition in the Kanwar Yatra route.
Last month, Yashveer Maharaj released an Islamophobic video, calling the Muslim community as ‘jihadis.’ “There are certain people with a “jihadi” mentality on the Kanwar Yatra route that run hotels, dhabas, tea stalls, juice stalls, sweet shops using the names of our gods and goddesses, or with dharmic names,” he said in the video.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) national president Asaduddin Owaisi had demanded strict action against the Hindutva leader, questioning how the campaign had been allowed in Uttar Pradesh insofar.
This story was originally published in siasat.com. Read the full story here.
