: Is Adityanath attempting a Modi-esque image makeover? #IndiaNEWS In April, as protracted Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti celebrations marked by massive Hindutva groups-led processions triggered communal

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Is Adityanath attempting a Modi-esque image makeover? #IndiaNEWS
In April, as protracted Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti celebrations marked by massive Hindutva groups-led processions triggered communal violence across the country, Uttar Pradesh maintained an anxious calm. There were stray incidents in parts of the state, but none spiralled into uncontrolled violence with the police clamping down quickly. In Ayodhya, the police swiftly arrested seven men belonging to a Hindutva outfit for attempting to “instigate communal violence�. The accused, who allegedly wanted to exact revenge for the communal violence in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri, had littered several mosques in the city with pieces of pork, abusive anti-Muslim letters, and torn pages of the holy Quran. In fact, days after the violence in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri where Hindutva men openly brandished swords and tridents during a Hanuman Jayanti rally, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath had passed an order prohibiting the display of arms and weapons in religious processions. Festive rallies were to be carried out only after taking permissions from the administration and the organisers would have to submit affidavits stating there would be no trouble, the order said. Simultaneously, the chief minister’s anti-loudspeaker drive, according to news reports, seemed to have been enforced in an even-handed manner with several temples and mosques across the state voluntarily removing or lowering the levels of their...Read more

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