{"id":310199,"date":"2019-03-07T05:32:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T05:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310199"},"modified":"2019-03-07T05:52:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T05:52:31","slug":"uttar-pradesh-two-kashmiri-street-vendors-attacked-in-lucknow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/uttar-pradesh-two-kashmiri-street-vendors-attacked-in-lucknow\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttar Pradesh: Two Kashmiri street vendors attacked in Lucknow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two Kashmiri dry fruit vendors on Wednesday were attacked by a group of men on a busy road in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s capital Lucknow.<\/span><\/p>\n

A group of men belonging to a fringe right-wing outfit also filmed the assault. One of the men had shared a video of the assault on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to media reports, the incident took place at 5 pm yesterday in Daliganj in central Lucknow.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a video of the attack, which is being widely shared on social media, two men in saffron kurtas were seen thrashing one of the vendors.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the attackers was seen beating the man with a wooden stick. However, several local residents of Lucknow came to the rescue of the dry fruit sellers and stopped the men from assaulting them.<\/span><\/p>\n

The incident was reported to the local police after the video of the attack went viral on the social media late on Wednesday night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah tagged Prime Minister Narendra Modi on twitter\u00a0and tweeted, \u201cDear PM @narendramodi Sahib, this is what you had spoken against & yet it continues unabated. This is the state governed by your handpicked Chief Minister. Can we expect action in this case or do we file your concern & assurances as a jumla, meant to placate but nothing more?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNothing will do more damage to the idea of India in J&K than videos like these. Keep thrashing Kashmiris like this on the streets at the hands of RSS\/Bajrang Dal goons & then try to sell the idea of \u201catoot ang\u201d, it simply wont fly (sic),\u201d Omar added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Omar questioned Union Minister Rajnath Singh, \u201cJenab @rajnathsingh Sahib. You represent this constituency in the Lok Sabha, this is the constituency where Vajpayee Sb was elected from & went on to be PM. If no one else will step in & deliver justice can we expect you to punish those guilty of this assault?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two Kashmiri dry fruit vendors on Wednesday were attacked by a group of men on a busy road in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s capital Lucknow. A group of men belonging to a fringe right-wing outfit also filmed the assault. One of the men had shared a video of the assault on social media. According to media reports, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[272,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310204,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310199\/revisions\/310204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}