A Muslim trader from Asansol’s Qurashi Mohalla has donated ₹10,000 each to 12 people whose shops were ransacked, in an attempt to help them restart their businesses. | Photo Credit: TOI Archives

In what is truly heart-warming news, people from different religious communities are coming together in violence-affected Asansol to help those whose lives have been up-ended.

While political parties use the Ram Navami clashes in West Bengal to garner political capital, a Muslim trader from Asansol’s Qurashi Mohalla has donated Rs 10,000 each to 12 people whose shops were ransacked, in an attempt to help them restart their business, reports Indiatimes.

"We have been doing business together for years in this area. I did my small bit to help out my fellow traders," Haji Nahnane Khan said.

"I believe people in other areas will also extend a helping hand to their neighbours,” Khan added.

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Shopkeepers Uma Shankar Gupta, Manoj Yadav and Niranjan Shaw lavished high praise on Khan.

“He had come to us as our shops stood vandalised. We didn’t have the money to begin business again. Khan told us not to lose heart. He offered us money and asked whether we were ready to accept that. We agreed,” said Shaw.

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Meanwhile, Jitendra Tewari, the mayor of Asansol, has announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the kin of the dead and Rs 10,000 for those whose properties were vandalised, reports the news website.

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In fact, residents of Ramkrishna More and Hutton Road in Asansol took out a peace rally after Section 144 was lifted from the area.

This comes in the wake of the humanitarian move made by the Imam of the Noorani Masjid who had appealed for peace after his son was killed in the violence. Joy Banerjee, a BJP leader from Birbhum later told reporters that he would propose the imam’s name for the President’s Award, reports Indiatimes.

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Ignoring the prohibitory orders imposed by the state administration, a four-member delegation of the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP) on Sunday visited the areas in West Bengal's Asansol which witnessed violent clashes last week. The BJP team slammed the state government for "completely failing to stop the violence" in the region. The delegation was reportedly stopped by the police a few times but they entered the areas that were most affected by last week's violence when clashes broke out between two communities following a Ram Navami procession.

Union Minister Babul Supriyo was caught on tape threatening to “rip off the skin” of locals who staged protests when he visited his constituency Asansol in West Bengal.

“The conditions have become so adverse but the police are still not here. The police are supposed to be here, but the police is not here,” one local is heard telling the minister. The crowd then reportedly got agitated and demanded answers from the minister, who lost his cool and stated: “I will rip your skin off.”

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