The Uttar Pradesh unit of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad has launched a campaign that disallows people belonging to the minority community to buy property in Hindu-dominated areas.
According to the VHP, if sold, then people may use these houses as a safe haven to conduct terrorist and anti-national activities.
“We will also educate Hindus not to sell their houses to Muslims as their culture, and way of living does not match with us,” Sudarshan Maharaj, VHP Organizing Secretary, Meerut, told media.
The campaign comes after Sanjay Rastogi, a Meerut-based businessman, from Maliwada in Meerut district, sold a portion of his house to a Muslim family. However, when the buyer Nauman Ahmed went for the possession, he was heckled by VHP activists and local residents and warned not to shift into the house.
Locals also confronted Sanjay Rastogi for selling his property discreetly to a Muslim family without consulting and seeking consent from his neighbours.
The matter went to the Kotwali police station where a compromise was reached. It asked Sanjay to return the money to Nauman within two months to close the matter.
Meanwhile, a delegation of the members AIMIM met the SSP Manzil Saini and other senior police officials. They sought action against VHP and BJYM activists making a property deal into Hindu-Muslim and demand protection for the Muslim family to shift in the house.
