The Himalayan state of Uttarakhand is also popularly known as Dev Bhoomi, the land of deities, in the Hindu heartland. But slowly and stealthily, this sacred land of deities has become the target of land jihadis who have been engaging in a planned program of illegally grabbing land. While the people of this peaceful state were not watching, they migrated, settled, and started building illegal structures. By the time authorities took cognizance of the sinister practice, Uttarakhand had the second fastest-growing population of Muslims, after the state of Assam, which is perennially plagued with infiltrating Bangladeshis.
The Pachhua area of the state capital has turned into an Islamic territory due to this massive influx of Muslim migrants, which allegedly includes illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya immigrants. To stop the unlawful invasion, in tandem with various departments, the state administration had initiated a full-fledged investigation to unearth details about land jihad.
News reports revealed the settlement of thousands of Muslims around the border of Uttarakhand, expanding to Paonta Sahib in the adjoining state of Himachal Pradesh. While no outsider can legally buy land in Himachal Pradesh, these illegal squatters do so by occupying the border area Uttarkhand shares with Himachal.
The current government has finally woken up from its deep slumber, but it will not be easy to rid the state of these encroachers. The Forest Department, Revenue Department, Hydroelectric Project Department, and other Central departments have started taking some preliminary actions. The Uttarakhand Hydroelectric Project Department sent eviction notices to over 700 Muslim families who were found to have illegally occupied the government land on both sides of a canal that ranges from the Himachal border to the Asan Barrage. They have created permanent structures there as well. But every time the government tries to take action against these illegal activities, Islamic apologists in India, including journalists, artists, activists, and television and radio personalities, raise a massive hue and cry over an alleged “attack on Muslims” and try to derail government’s efforts. This familiar tactic was employed similarly even in this case, and the administration was faced with significant resistance to its efforts to evict the illegal settlers.
Some of these settlers also came here as daily wage earners from other states such as Uttar Pradesh, and later called in their relatives to build a local settlement in order to accommodate the increasing population. The Islamic population is also rapidly increasing around the Yamuna River. The strategically placed Islamic population has significantly disturbed the demographic balance in multiple areas, including Khushalpur, Sihani Wala, Dhakirani, Sherpur, Vikas Nagar river bank and the Herbertpur area.
Hundreds of mosques, tombs, and mausoleums have been erected illegally. Several madrasas have cropped up and have been transformed into magnificent buildings. Numerous other small buildings for conducting Islamic prayers have been built across the state. Such illegal places for holding Islamic prayers are constructed by violating the order of the Apex Court, which ordered that no new religious site will be built with due process.
Thousands of unlawfully constructed mazars, Islamic shrines, have popped up in the state. A mazar appeared on the road facing the powerhouse of Uttarakhand Energy Corporation. The famous wildlife sanctuary, Jim Corbett National Park in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand, has become the biggest victim of mazar jihad. The mushrooming mazars in the designated forest area has led to significant dissatisfaction among locals and has caught the attention of governing bodies. The state’s chief minister has said that although the state administration does not oppose any faith or community, it would not spare people engaging in “land jihad” or “mazar jihad,” which have become some Muslims’ next well-planned method to take over land in Uttarakhand.
A Panchjanya report suggests that locals may have connections with an outfit called the Gazwa-Hind Jamaat. Regular attendance registers are maintained at the mosques, which mandate Muslim men to attend the jamaats. Mosques are giving local Muslims targets to take over the plastic and iron businesses and encroach on government land, residences and other vital assets in the state. They have already grabbed land areas around major roads, highways, and hospitals by setting up stalls or huts by evading the local municipal rules.
The situation in the region, which stretches between Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh, has gotten out of hand. It’s appalling that no political party wants to resolve this issue, lest it lose the Islamic vote bloc. Members of Muslim-pandering political parties have also reportedly influenced police investigations on the illegal encroachments and gotten such cases closed. As long as the BJP government is in power, at least some counter-effort against the Islamic land jihadis can be undertaken, so that Uttarakhand does not follow in the footsteps of Kerala, Assam or West Bengal.
Devasur says
You are not even allowed to go to Muslim ghettos and forget about their holy places. Yet media blames the non-muslims for not giving up their life and property for their favorite community.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
You need to back “Ekam Sanatan Bharat” next year
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I completely disagree w/ Ashlyn. Uttarakhand never had a muslim population until the BJP came to power. They’re following a policy of “triptikaran” (which translates to ‘satiation”), the goal being to make muslims completely happy. As a result, they’ve participated in all these “land jihad” activities – helping muslims encroach public property, and even allowed muslims to work in & around Hindu temples, despite their record in desecrating Hindu iconography. The reason Uttarakhand is in the state that it is in is the BJP. If these trends continue nationwide, as they have been, then India will morph into another Nigeria and end up as a part of Pakistan and Bangladesh
A new political party called “Ekam Sanatan Bharat” has been started as a grassroots organization, and it’s putting itself together in various states. They have 7 ideals, which I’ve mentioned in the past and which is available on their website. Reversing the demographic jihad is one of their objectives. Hopefully, even if they don’t come to power, they get enough legislators to oppose these moves in parliament, and reverse India’s slide into islam
Westman says
The Indian intellectual giants of Hinduism and Islam flow, in a rivulet, to the West while those left behind stumble toward Civil War. Where there is no living prophet, the people perish. Where is todays Gandhi?
Bushan mehra says
Thanks to gandhi and nehru that we are facing this.i cursing them form dept of my heart.
Westman says
Why Gandhi? The incomplete transition of Muslims to the Pakistan partition of India is where the root was planted. Europe is discovering that where the Quran(book) made no inroads into Western society for a thousand years its followers have begun the recent rapid transition of European society in just 70 years.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Both Nehru & Gandhi opposed that part of the partition – expelling all muslims to Pakistan. Otherwise, had the partition been complete, India wouldn’t have had these issues of land jihad, “love jihad” and so on