On June 10, more than 30 residents of a housing complex in Vadodara protested against the allocation of a flat to a 44-year-old Muslim government employee under the Mukhyamantri Awas Yojana. They claimed that the presence of a Muslim woman and her teenage son in the complex posed a “threat and nuisance”.
Even though these instances have been widely reported and criticised, the widespread displacement that Muslims face gets normalised as a byproduct of sectarian tensions rather than the human rights crisis that it actually is.
Perhaps, what is needed is a shift in perspective and to view the crisis through the lens of displacement and forced migration.
28/06/2024