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Social worker and former Samajwadi Party spokesperson Pankhuri Pathak has alleged that she and her team members were attacked by Bajrang Dal members in Aligarh Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. The incident took place when she and her team had gone to a village in the Aligarh district to meet the families of two people killed in an alleged fake encounter by the Uttar Pradesh police on September 20, Ms Pathak said.
Pankhuri Pathak, political activist and former spokesperson of Samajwadi Party, narrowly escaped lynching by a saffron mob here on Saturday morning when she and some other activists were visiting a poor Muslim family whose two sons (Naushad and Mustaqeem) were shot dead by the local police in an ‘encounter’ last month.After the narrow escape, she said that a saffron mob carried out a murderous attack on a Hindu girl (her) and some Hindu boys just for politics.
“आज ‘हिंदुत्व’ को क़रीब से देखा .. जब अपनी राजनीति के लिए एक भगवाधारी भीड़ ने एक हिन्दू लड़की और कई हिन्दू लड़कों पर जानलेवा हमला किया । इनका हिंदुत्व इनकी राजनीति तक सीमित है । बाक़ी हर हिन्दू इनके लिए बस शिकार है जिसकी हत्या यह अपने राजनैतिक फ़ायदे के लिए कर सकते हैं ।“(Today I saw ‘Hindutva’ from very close range. Just for their politics, a saffron mob carried out a murderous attack on a Hindu girl (her) and some Hindu boys. Their Hindutva is limited to their politics. Beyond that, every Hindu is mere a prey for them and they can kill him/her for their political benefits.)
आज ‘हिंदुत्व’ को क़रीब से देखा .. जब अपनी राजनीति के लिए एक भगवाधारी भीड़ ने एक हिन्दू लड़की और कई हिन्दू लड़कों पर जानलेवा हमला किया ।
इनका हिंदुत्व इनकी राजनीति तक सीमित है ।
बाक़ी हर हिन्दू इनके लिए बस शिकार है जिसकी हत्या यह अपने राजनैतिक फ़ायदे के लिए कर सकते हैं ।— Pankhuri Pathak पंखुड़ी पाठक پنکھڑی (@pankhuripathak) October 6, 2018
मॉब लंचिंग – भीड़ हिंसा – हम सभी ने यह शब्द सुना है , लेकिन किसी को देखना हो कि ख़ूनी भीड़ कैसी होती है वह यह विडीओ देखे ।
कल जिन लोगों पर जानलेवा हमला हुआ वह सब हिंदू – ब्राह्मण, राजपूत व यादव थे – लेकिन अराजक भीड़ के लिए उनका राजनैतिक मक़सद सबसे ऊपर है..चाहे किसी की जान चली जाए pic.twitter.com/68MhsvPkNc— Pankhuri Pathak पंखुड़ी पाठक پنکھڑی (@pankhuripathak) October 7, 2018
Some of her friends were assaulted by the mob. Some videos and media reports say the mob also manhandled her and tore her clothes. Pankhuri and other activists had gone to meet the family of Naushad (17) and Mustaqeem (22) who were killed by the police in an ‘encounter’ on 20th September. Hours after the shootout, their families told the press that the duo was picked from home four days before the shootout.
Pankhuri’s tweet on Hindutva has gone viral.It has since got 6.9k likes and 2.4k retweets. After narrowly escaping the mob, she did a Facebook live from her car while leaving, rather fleeing the village. She alleged that Police remained mute spectator when the mob of Bajrang Dal was attacking her.