Eight new cases of land grabbing in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh have been filed against SP leader Azam Khan for forcefully grabbing the lands of farmers for his university.
Kairana in Uttar Pradesh is a communally sensitive area which witnessed an exodus of Hindus during the Samajwadi Party government led by Akhilesh Yadav.
Azam Khan has claimed that the 'mob lynching' incidents are Muslims getting punished for not going to Pakistan in 1947. Khan, however, does not mention anything about scores of Hindus who have been killed by Muslim mobs in the country.
Changing the ethnicities and identities of a highly publicised crime only reeks of narrow political agenda, an agenda which is dangerously partial and divisive.