Mob Outside Jamia Raises ‘Goli Maro’ Slogans Again, Police Present In The Area Are Trying To Pacify The Angry Mob And Asking Them To Go Back.
India Today Web Desk
New Delhi
February 4, 2020
Atense situation prevailed outside Jamia Millia University on Tuesday as another group of people were spotted proceeding towards the university and chanting slogans of desh ke gaddaron ko, goli maro s****n ko (shoot traitors of the country).
Police present in the area are trying to pacify the angry mob and asking them to go back. The development comes just a day after another firing incident was reported from outside the university campus, making it the third incident of firing in the last five days.
Before this, another man opened fire at Shaheen Bagh in the national capital on Saturday. The shooter was quickly taken into custody. Eyewitnesses said that the man shouted "Hindu Rashtra Zindabad" and fired two rounds. The man had resorted to aerial firing. Police immediately overpowered and caught him," Delhi DCP Chinmay Biswal told ANI.
Kapil Gujjar, a Class 12 dropout, has denied being associated with any group. The shooter is 25-years-old. He came to Shaheen Bagh on an auto. Just a day before this incident on January 30, another gunman opened fire at a mob near Jamia area in New Delhi, injuring one university student.
He had shouted 'ye lo azaadi' as he shot at protesters marching towards Rajghat on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's death anniversary. The shooter also posed live footage from the scene and wrote several pro-Hindutva slogans on his Facebook profile. One of his FB posts read: "Shaheen Bagh, khel khatam (game over)."
A huge political war of words has broken out between BJP and its opponents after the multiple shooting incidents at the Shaheen Bagh protest site and Jamia area. BJP's main opponents have been linking the incidents of shooting to chants of 'goli maro' at a rally headed by BJP minister Anurag Thakur in Delhi last week.
Thakur has now been ordered off the BJP's list of star campaigners by election commission authrities and slapped with a temporary campaign ban. Similar action was taken against BJP MP Parvesh Verma, who said last week that protesters at Shaheen Bagh were capable of rape and murder.
Other BJP leaders have targeted the demonstrators -- mainly Muslim women -- including by promising a "surgical strike" on the day election results are announced.
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