Bareilly clashes: Those spreading anarchy will pay price that generations will remember, says UP CM

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath on Sunday warned that anyone spreading anarchy during the festive season will be made to “pay a price that future generations will remember”.

The Bharatiya Janata Party leader made the assertion in the context of violence that broke out in Bareilly on Friday when a crowd carrying “I love Muhammad” posters clashed with police outside a mosque.

“Those who believe even today that creating anarchy is their birthright must shed their illusions,” Adityanath said at an event in Balrampur in which he laid the foundation stone for several projects. “The time is past when the Samajwadi Party or the Congress used to be in power.”

Adityanath further asserted: “Ghazwa-e-Hind will not happen on the soil of India. Even imagining ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’ or dreaming about it will lead to a ticket to hell.”

The term Ghazwa-e-Hind refers to a purported aspiration for an Islamic conquest of India, and is often used by Hindutva leaders to target Muslims.

Adityanath said that faith “is not meant to be displayed on public squares, but is a matter of the heart”.

He added: “The hands of little children should hold pens, notebooks, and science and mathematics books. By making them hold ‘I love Muhammad’ posters instead, some people are trying to spread anarchy.”

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