To ‘save’ their houses in Azam’s Rampur, 80 Valmiki families set to embrace Islam | The Indian Express
Around 80 Valmiki families in Rampur have announced to embrace Islam in order to “save their houses from demolition”. Five of them have even started an indefinite hunger strike against the government’s plan to widen the roads in Topkhana locality, as the municipal body said, by clearing the “encroachments”.
The police have registered a case against 86 members of the Valmiki community for staging an agitation against UP Urban Development Minister Azam Khan, after protests by SP workers.
The issue began on April 6 when municipal authorities marked the houses for demolition at Topkhana locality. SP’s district unit office is located on same road and the civic body is also constructing a multi-storeyed ‘Gandhi Mall’ in the same locality.
“We held the agitation as Valmiki community are living in the locality for 60 years and our houses are in danger. Now, they don’t want us to live near the beautiful mall as our houses are spoiling its beauty,” Eklavya Valmiki, who is named in the FIR, told The Indian Express. He is also an office bearer of Valmiki Basti Bachao Sangarsh Samiti, which is leading the agitation.
Left with “no option”, the affected families have announced that they would embrace Islam on April 14 on Ambedkar Jayanti, if the conversion helps them save their homes. “If that is the guarantee when our houses can be saved we will become Muslims. There is no other option. The roads in Muslim locality is quite narrow but our road is being widened,” Eklavya claimed. The Valmiki organisation has also issued a press statement in this regard.
Police authorities took serious note of slogans against Azam Khan and transferred seven policemen of the local police station to reserve police lines.
Azhar Ahmed Khan, Chairman Nagar Palika Rampur, said, “We are just removing encroachment from government land. We will take legal action. It is just pressure tactics. One becomes Muslim from heart. It is an RSS ploy,” he alleged.
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This news was shared in another corner of this site by some indian member and was presented as though its muslims ,here actually Azam khan, who are responsible for the conversion. As its known india had never since independence scrapped its caste system which now classifies dalits as scheduled castes and adivasis as scheduled tribes to play 'Vote bank gain' politics. And due to being deprived of their due rights , dalits have for decades used mass conversion to islam' and even conversion to christianity as a tool to protest against gov's retarded despotic policies , to be granted their due rights and perhaps to some extent that has worked too. Read the whole history of protest conversions. Shocks and more shocks.
In the same manner to protest the gov's decision of their colonies' demolition these people are using this threat. And someone was projecting it as Azam khan , the municipal minister of UP's, fault. The guy comes from samajhwadi party which forms the state government in UP. Head of samajhwadi party himelf is a hindu and with a hinduvta party that is bjp in the centre, would it be possible for a muslim to force people into conversion and in such manner. That would be akin to calling for nutjob brown shorts hinduvta looneys to start another bloody riots episode.
If he was so powerful then why not being a minsiter of a state which has been badly deprived of its due resources and monetary share and has the most impoverished infrastructure, high illiteracy rate, downtrodden education system,high levels of poverty ,just and only because its a Muslim majority state,;not worked for the benefit of these muslims rather than working towards conversions. Vilmakis are adivasis.
And these myopic people have the audacity to blame muslims for that. Boo!
Around 80 Valmiki families in Rampur have announced to embrace Islam in order to “save their houses from demolition”. Five of them have even started an indefinite hunger strike against the government’s plan to widen the roads in Topkhana locality, as the municipal body said, by clearing the “encroachments”.
The police have registered a case against 86 members of the Valmiki community for staging an agitation against UP Urban Development Minister Azam Khan, after protests by SP workers.
The issue began on April 6 when municipal authorities marked the houses for demolition at Topkhana locality. SP’s district unit office is located on same road and the civic body is also constructing a multi-storeyed ‘Gandhi Mall’ in the same locality.
“We held the agitation as Valmiki community are living in the locality for 60 years and our houses are in danger. Now, they don’t want us to live near the beautiful mall as our houses are spoiling its beauty,” Eklavya Valmiki, who is named in the FIR, told The Indian Express. He is also an office bearer of Valmiki Basti Bachao Sangarsh Samiti, which is leading the agitation.
Left with “no option”, the affected families have announced that they would embrace Islam on April 14 on Ambedkar Jayanti, if the conversion helps them save their homes. “If that is the guarantee when our houses can be saved we will become Muslims. There is no other option. The roads in Muslim locality is quite narrow but our road is being widened,” Eklavya claimed. The Valmiki organisation has also issued a press statement in this regard.
Police authorities took serious note of slogans against Azam Khan and transferred seven policemen of the local police station to reserve police lines.
Azhar Ahmed Khan, Chairman Nagar Palika Rampur, said, “We are just removing encroachment from government land. We will take legal action. It is just pressure tactics. One becomes Muslim from heart. It is an RSS ploy,” he alleged.
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This news was shared in another corner of this site by some indian member and was presented as though its muslims ,here actually Azam khan, who are responsible for the conversion. As its known india had never since independence scrapped its caste system which now classifies dalits as scheduled castes and adivasis as scheduled tribes to play 'Vote bank gain' politics. And due to being deprived of their due rights , dalits have for decades used mass conversion to islam' and even conversion to christianity as a tool to protest against gov's retarded despotic policies , to be granted their due rights and perhaps to some extent that has worked too. Read the whole history of protest conversions. Shocks and more shocks.
In the same manner to protest the gov's decision of their colonies' demolition these people are using this threat. And someone was projecting it as Azam khan , the municipal minister of UP's, fault. The guy comes from samajhwadi party which forms the state government in UP. Head of samajhwadi party himelf is a hindu and with a hinduvta party that is bjp in the centre, would it be possible for a muslim to force people into conversion and in such manner. That would be akin to calling for nutjob brown shorts hinduvta looneys to start another bloody riots episode.
If he was so powerful then why not being a minsiter of a state which has been badly deprived of its due resources and monetary share and has the most impoverished infrastructure, high illiteracy rate, downtrodden education system,high levels of poverty ,just and only because its a Muslim majority state,;not worked for the benefit of these muslims rather than working towards conversions. Vilmakis are adivasis.
And these myopic people have the audacity to blame muslims for that. Boo!
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That's how it should be done. 
#freewillrocks
