Meanwhile, a different Muharram story in Gujarat

For the first time after the Gujarat riots, around 30 riot-affected families of Naroda village are taking out tazia procession during Muharr...

For the first time after the Gujarat riots, around 30 riot-affected families of Naroda village are taking out tazia procession during Muharram on Sunday along with Hindus living nearby.

“When riots broke out on February 28, 2002, 14 persons from 125 families living here were massacred,” Imran Khan, an active member of Aman Samudayam’ which is organising the tazia, said.

“However, minority community members living here are trying to put the past behind by taking out the procession with the assistance of Hindu brethren,” he added. “Hindu families who surround our minority enclave have contributed in cash for setting up tazia this year,” he said, adding tazia was being taken out for the first time in such a big way after the riots. “Though only 30-odd families reside here today, the rest of the families who shifted within the city after the riots, have come to attend the tazia procession”, Maulana Ramzan Ali Sheikh, the maulvi of the mosque in Naroda said.

Minor incidents were reported in West Bengal in which two people were injured. The festival passed off peacefully in other states including Andhra Pradesh. —PTI

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