Kairana Hindu Exodus

The alleged "exodus" of Hindus from Uttar Pradesh's Kairana before 2017 - a claim widely debunked as a communal bogey - took centre-stage as Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday launched a door-to-door election campaign in the state's west.

BJP lawmaker Yogi Adityanath has praised US President Donald Trump's temporary ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries - criticized in the US as well as worldwide - and said such action is needed to check terrorism in India.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh is scheduled to address a rally at Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, which was in the limelight over alleged migration of Hindus, on November 7 as part of BJP's Parivartan Yatra in the poll-bound state.

BJP chief Amit Shah today said that Uttar Pradesh's government with its "three and a half CMs" has failed to maintain law and order. He also raked up the Kairana issue, claiming that incidents of Hindu families being made to leave were happening across Uttar Pradesh.

It is 3 in the morning and everyone in Uttar Pradesh's Mubarakpur, a village famous for its Banarasi sari weavers, is sleeping. One man is awake, though, and so is his 12-year-old son.

Five seers who visited Kairana in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday have rubbished a BJP leader's allegation of a "Hindu exodus" from the Muslim-dominated town.

At around 11.30 am on Friday, two political rallies began from Meerut and Sardana, Uttar Pradesh towns about 22 km apart. Both Sangeet Som of the BJP and Atul Pradhan of the Samajwadi Party said they were leading party workers to Kairana in western UP, where prohibitory orders are in place.

A nine-member BJP team today visited Kairana in Uttar Pradesh to review the situation over alleged migration of Hindus that has set off a political slugfest even as Congress said the BJP leadership has been "totally exposed" after a party MP's U-turn on the issue.

Rejecting BJP's contention of migration of Hindus from Kairana, JNU Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar today the residents were leaving their village in search of jobs and issue had nothing to do with any particular community.

Upping the offensive over alleged migration of Hindus from Kairana in western Uttar Pradesh, local BJP MP Hukum Singh today claimed the number of families that had to flee can go up to 400-500 even as Shamli District Magistrate Sujeet Kumar said some people left the town not because of "communal activity" but for "economic reasons".

BJP lawmaker from Uttar Pradesh Hukum Singh who had alleged a Hindu exodus from Kairana, in remarks that were then taken up by party president Amit Shah and Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu, has now said that the people leaving their homes was 'not a communal issue'.

Political temperature over reports of migration of Hindus from Kairana in western Uttar Pradesh is all set to rise in the run-up to next year's Assembly polls with BJP today terming it as "not good" for democracy and promising "proper action" after probe by a party team into the "very sensitive matter".

The mass Hindu exodus in Uttar Pradesh's Kairana is not limited to the town and another list with more names will be released in the next few days, BJP legislator and Muzaffarnagar riots accused Hukum Singh told NDTV today.

The alleged "exodus" of Hindus from Uttar Pradesh's Kairana before 2017 - a claim widely debunked as a communal bogey - took centre-stage as Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday launched a door-to-door election campaign in the state's west.

BJP lawmaker Yogi Adityanath has praised US President Donald Trump's temporary ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries - criticized in the US as well as worldwide - and said such action is needed to check terrorism in India.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh is scheduled to address a rally at Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, which was in the limelight over alleged migration of Hindus, on November 7 as part of BJP's Parivartan Yatra in the poll-bound state.

BJP chief Amit Shah today said that Uttar Pradesh's government with its "three and a half CMs" has failed to maintain law and order. He also raked up the Kairana issue, claiming that incidents of Hindu families being made to leave were happening across Uttar Pradesh.

It is 3 in the morning and everyone in Uttar Pradesh's Mubarakpur, a village famous for its Banarasi sari weavers, is sleeping. One man is awake, though, and so is his 12-year-old son.

Five seers who visited Kairana in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday have rubbished a BJP leader's allegation of a "Hindu exodus" from the Muslim-dominated town.

At around 11.30 am on Friday, two political rallies began from Meerut and Sardana, Uttar Pradesh towns about 22 km apart. Both Sangeet Som of the BJP and Atul Pradhan of the Samajwadi Party said they were leading party workers to Kairana in western UP, where prohibitory orders are in place.

A nine-member BJP team today visited Kairana in Uttar Pradesh to review the situation over alleged migration of Hindus that has set off a political slugfest even as Congress said the BJP leadership has been "totally exposed" after a party MP's U-turn on the issue.

Rejecting BJP's contention of migration of Hindus from Kairana, JNU Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar today the residents were leaving their village in search of jobs and issue had nothing to do with any particular community.

Upping the offensive over alleged migration of Hindus from Kairana in western Uttar Pradesh, local BJP MP Hukum Singh today claimed the number of families that had to flee can go up to 400-500 even as Shamli District Magistrate Sujeet Kumar said some people left the town not because of "communal activity" but for "economic reasons".

BJP lawmaker from Uttar Pradesh Hukum Singh who had alleged a Hindu exodus from Kairana, in remarks that were then taken up by party president Amit Shah and Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu, has now said that the people leaving their homes was 'not a communal issue'.

Political temperature over reports of migration of Hindus from Kairana in western Uttar Pradesh is all set to rise in the run-up to next year's Assembly polls with BJP today terming it as "not good" for democracy and promising "proper action" after probe by a party team into the "very sensitive matter".

The mass Hindu exodus in Uttar Pradesh's Kairana is not limited to the town and another list with more names will be released in the next few days, BJP legislator and Muzaffarnagar riots accused Hukum Singh told NDTV today.