Delhi Police stop Hindutva conclave midway because of hate speech against Muslims

The Delhi Police on Sunday stopped a Hindutva conclave midway after the event witnessed instances of hate speech, The Indian Express reported.

The mahapanchayat was organised in the Jantar Mantar area by Hindutva bodies – the All India Sanatan Foundation and Hindu Sena – to protest communal clashes that broke out in Haryana’s Nuh on July 31. Six persons were killed in violence in Nuh and then it spread to neighbouring Gurugram in the subsequent days.

Hindu Sena national president Vishnu Gupta, Raksha Dal’s Pinky Chaudhary and the Dasna Devi temple’s head priest Narsinghanand Saraswati were among those who attended the Sunday event.

The conclave began amid heavy police presence at 10 am. The police first intervened around 11.50 am when Saraswati, who is currently on bail in a hate speech case in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar town, was speaking about the clashes in Nuh.

The Hindutva leader said: “If the situation doesn’t change, a non-Hindu person will become the prime minister...You won’t have any land for yourself and will have to drown in the Indian Ocean...since you won’t fight.”

As Saraswati was finishing his speech, two police officials approached him and asked him to stop. While the organisers of the event claimed that the police asked them to disperse, the police said they only asked the Dasna Devi temple’s head...

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