Taking suo motu cognizance of development of a residential colony ‘Ganga Heritage’, a stone’s throw from river Ganga, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has sought an action taken report from the district administration and the pollution control board (PCB) in Haridwar on how the coloniser was granted permission for the same.
Activists and analysts say calls for anti-Muslim violence even genocide are moving from the fringes to the mainstream, while political leaders keep silent.
The police officer arrived at the Hindu temple in Haridwar with a warning to the monks: Don’t repeat your hate speech. Ten days earlier, before a packed audience and thousands watching online, the monks had called for violence against the country’s minority Muslims. The monks’ speeches, in one of India’s holiest cities, promoted a genocidal campaign to “kill 2 million of them”