Lucknow: Around 50 Dalits in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad have decided to relinquish Hinduism and become Muslims in protest against Yogi Adithyanath led state government’s anti-Dalit policies. They allege that Dalits are being “ignored” and “tortured” under Yogi Government rule.
According to them Bhratiya Janta Party workers “mistreated” Dalits in violence hit Saharanpur and Sambhal which recently faced massive clashes between two groups; post which “they lost their faith in Hinduism”.
This group of 50 people has also fluxed the Hindu idols they had in their houses in rivers.
The group of people claims that they had very high aspirations from Yogi and Modi government, but they have been disappointed and have declared the government as ‘Anti-Dalit’.
As per reports, after hearing about this group of people; a bunch from Bajrang Dal approached them and tried to convince them for not changing their religion, but the Dali group was not ready to relent.
Recently, a group of 20 people made headlines for adopting Hinduism as a religion, who previously known as Muslims though never followed Islam.
(Agencies)
