KairanaShamli: The “exodus“ of Hindus from Kairana received prominent attention during BJP's national executive in Allahabad on Sunday, but at ground zero, Hindu families TOI met said Hukum Singh, the party MP who made the “exodus list“, was mostly “off the mark and had exaggerated facts“.A TOI team located at least 20 families mentioned in Singh's list of 346 and almost all of them said the MP had got things wrong and perhaps wilfully falsified “evidence“ for political reasons.Murari Lal's family, for instance, is listed at “number 195“ on Hukum Singh's list of Hindu families that have supposedly “fled“ from western Uttar Pradesh's Kairana town, unable to withstand persecution. Lal, however, is very much there and says he has been living in Kairana since he is born and has never received any threat from the “other community“.Several such families on the list said their names had been wrongly placed on the list. Some said that if certain families had moved, it was mostly to find employment and better opportunities and not out of fear of rising instances of communalism. Others recognised that while there were seri ous law and order con cerns, it was only a part of the reasons. None, however, claimed that a “mass exodus“ along the lines of Kashmir had taken place. Hukum Singh, though, stuck to his position and insisted there was “movement out of Kairana“.But on Monday , his statement came with a disclaimer. “I have relied on the information given by my party workers to prepare the list,“ he said. “I have learnt about this from hardworking karyakartas and I trust them.Iam a responsible MP . The district administration and police are under pressure from the state government and they are all trying to prove that I am lying. Hundreds of Hindu families have left Kairana out of fear and that is a fact. Now they are saying that families left to find better avenues. If that is the case then why would they leave behind business that had a turnover of Rs 2 lakh per month? Why would they leave behind properties that cost crores? “ Lal isn't amused. “I don't know how I ended up on this list,“ he said. “I have never moved from here. Nobody even came to my house to ask me about this list. It is wrong to say that there is Hindu-Muslim tension in Kairana. My neighbours are Muslims and we live in harmony . I go to their house and they come to mine.“