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Urdu is not a ‘Muslim language’, BJP alienised it, Congress is silent

The attack on a Muslim school principal for teaching Urdu ‘to non-Muslims’ should serve as a wake-up call for those who assumed they were insulated from such violence.

For over a decade, Hindutva bigots have systematically attacked Muslims across India, sometimes for simply existing. Many of us in Hyderabad watched these incidents as mute spectators thinking, “It only happens in the north; it’ll never happen in the south, especially not in Hyderabad.”

A recent incident, however, should serve as a wake-up call for all those who assumed they were insulated from such violence. A Muslim school principal was assaulted, in police presence, by BJP’s Armoor president Vandula Balu, over allegations of teaching Urdu to non-Muslim students in a school in Telangana’s Nizamabad district. The principal later explained that the non-Muslim students were merely seated there due to ongoing construction in another class.

This incident is a terrible sign of things to come. More troubling is the silence of Telangana CM A Revanth Reddy and other Congress leaders on the growing communalism in the state. It’s like there is a silent acceptance of communalism, which is only emboldening the right-wing.

But the incident is shocking also because Urdu is the second official........

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