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Communal divide: Muzaffarnagar riot victims tell Rahul, we won't return home

Shamli: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi came face to face with the bitter reality of the deep communal divide in the sugar belt of Muzaffarnagar and Shamli as he made an unannounced visit to the relief



Villager Juglal says “earlier riots never took place there.”

When villagers complained about unequal treatment by the state government, Gandhi as well as other Congress leaders accompanying him reminded them that their hands are tied as the state government here is of another party.

Gandhi's cavalcade was stopped at Sanjhak, where a camp was pitched for riot victims behind Islamia Madarsa. Scores of women and children surrounded him seeking better facilities.

Uttar Pradesh Secretary D S Sharma had on October 26 written to the Commissioner of Saharanpur division that a rehabilitation proposal (Rs 5 lakh) has been made available for “Muslim families” living in camps after being displaced and those who “will not be able to return to their villages, homes under any circumstances”.

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