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Watch: UP BJP MLA Caught On Camera Asking Residents To Not Buy Vegetables From Muslims

A video of the communal remark by BJP MLA Suresh Tiwari has gone viral where he asks people to not buy vegetables from Muslims.

Deoria| A video of Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA Suresh Tiwari has surfaced in which he can be heard telling people to not purchase vegetables from Muslim vendors.

“Keep one thing in mind, I am telling everyone openly, no one should purchase vegetables from Miyas [Muslims],” he is seen telling people, including government officials and a policeman.

Suresh Tiwari is a Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Barhaj assembly seat in Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh.

This comes days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat called for harmony and asked Indians to not hate against particular communities.

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Partisans of the saffron Party were quoted on TV and in newspapers calling the Jamaat incident as “corona terrorism” or “Corona Jihad.”

Experts who reviewed previous pandemics warn that stigma and blame for an infectious disease undermine trust in marginalized communities, threatening decades-long efforts against diseases such as polio and tuberculosis by making people less likely to seek treatment.

Recently, a resident of Mumbai’s suburb Mira Road was arrested after he allegedly refused to accept a package he ordered online from the Muslim delivery man.

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