- 7/8/2025
The upcoming Kanwar Yatra, set to begin on 11th July, is mired in controversy due to alleged religious profiling along the route. Reports indicate that shop owners and food vendors are being forced to display posters declaring 'I am a Hindu' or 'Main Hindu Hoon'.
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00:00Kamar Yatra is set to begin from the 11th July amidst the festive fervor there is an undercurrent
00:09of tension and the undercurrent running through the Kamar Yatra route from forcing Dhabha owners
00:17to display their names and of those working in their establishment to self-styled vigilante
00:25groups conducting rampant religious profiling the ugly face of communal profiling visible
00:35with I am a Hindu may Hindu who posters plastered in shops food carts and Dhabha's along the Yatra route
00:44from Barili to Kachalabad I you chief minister Yogi Adityanath after conducting an aerial survey
00:53from Ghaziabad to Bijanore has issued strict instructions those defiling the coward Yatra
01:00including acts like spitting in food will face the harshest punishment according to him
01:07the Samajwadi party calling this hate-mongering in Muzaffarnagar non-vegetarian Dhabha's along the
01:18coward Yatra route are being shut down many calling this discrimination the religious festival
01:25once again mired in a political religious communal and a constitutional storm
01:31the coward Yatra 2025 is not just a religious pilgrimage it is fast becoming a test of state
01:44capacity communal harmony and constitutional responsibility where does vigilance end
01:51and profiling begin bureau report India today I want to cut across right now to Ghansham Tiwari
02:00spokesperson Samajwadi party Dr Kaushal Kant Mishra spokesperson BJP Dr Kaushal Kant Mishra we're at a place
02:09where in Barili about 35 kilometres as per our reporters on ground there are carts and dhabas that have been made to plaster posters which say I'm a Hindu, I'm a Hindu, I'm a Hindu, would you think it's correct?
02:28What is problem in that? We are Hindu. You see nothing wrong in that? Nothing wrong. If in the same constitution, we are Hindu.
02:36If the same constitution gives permission to count the caste, then why not to paste the caste on the face of every sops?
02:45What is the problem in asking, saying I am Hindu?
02:51We are Hindu, we are Hindu, we are Hindu, we are Hindu, we are Hindu, we are Hindu, we are Hindu, we are Hindu, we are Hindu, we are Hindu, so what is the problem?
03:01Dr Kaushal Kant Mishra for somebody who is a doctor I will ask you one question. Do you do remember during the Holocaust the Jews were made to wear a star? Was there anything wrong in that?
03:10If there is something going against them? Anybody? Then it is wrong. Just expressing my name that I am Hindu.
03:19You don't think this would lead to economic discrimination?
03:22If the halal economy has not lead yet any economic discrimination to any community, then I don't think there is any economic discrimination.
03:31Only during this period when the certain religious group is taking their own position, Kavan Yatra is going on, I don't see.
03:40It should be the responsibility of the fellow citizen in the name of Bhai Chara that they should say that I am Muslim and I am Christian and I am Sikh.
03:51What is the problem in that? Let them choose which stop they want to go. What is the problem in that? I think it is Bhai Chara.
04:00It's depending on which glass you are looking. If we are whole countries looking, whole halal economy with the secular glass, why not to see this as a secular glass?
04:10And if the caste, census, jati jan-garna, poochna, jatiyo ka number poochna galat nahi hai, to jati ko likh kar ke batane ni kya dikket hai.
04:20Muche nahi lagta isme kuch bhi galat hai. Legally, constitutionally.
04:25You don't think there is anything constitutionally wrong when it comes down to economic discrimination, sir?
04:29No.
04:30Because this directly is leading to economic discrimination, which as per, and I will, you know, we have this conversation about the constitution, various amendments, various paragraphs, and we can go to 15A of the Indian constitution which says no individual will be discriminated on economic grounds.
04:47Preeti, bilkul sahi baat hai, par mojhe yeh batayi hai, agar yeh desh abhi tak ájadhi ke 75 sal tak halal ekonomi ko apne serp pe bithai ghoom raha tha,
04:56tab agar constitutional validation raha hai uska, to isko kya problem hai? Mujhe samasya yeh batayi hai na.
05:02Yeh joh double standard hai na, ki ham agar hindu likh raha hai, then it becomes constitutional issue.
05:08Agar wo halal likh karke chal ha hai, halal poosh karke kha raha hai, halal chadar kharid raha hai, halal dawai kharid raha hai.
05:15So, Dr. Kushal Kant Mishra, as I bring in the Samajwadi Party spokesperson, it's not a conversation between you and I, but I would reckon then by the virtue of what you're saying,
05:26practically everyone in this country should roam around with a name tag which would say I'm a Hindu, or I'm a Muslim, or I'm a Christian, and it's all okay.
05:34So if you, if Dr. Kushal Kant Mishra walks into a five star hotel, leave alone even a Haldi Ram during Navratra, and he's eating a Navratra Thali,
05:44he'd want to be served by somebody who wears a name tag which says I'm a Hindu, or I'm a Christian, I'm a Muslim, so if it's either of the other two, then you would not be served by them, correct?
05:54Preethi, agar Gopal apna naam Abdul batata hai, agar Salman Kureshi apna naam badai karke raha hai…
06:00It's a question, sir. It's a question. I asked you a question.
06:04So by the virtue of that fact, everyone should roam around with a name tag which says I'm a Hindu, I'm a Muslim.
06:11When Dr. Kushal Kant Mishra eats at a restaurant, he's very careful on the person who serves him, says I'm a Muslim, so can I serve you?
06:20Or I'm a Hindu, therefore I can serve you.
06:23Preethi, I…
06:24Correct?
06:25It's not about Kushal Kant Mishra, it's about who is fasting.
06:28Kushal Kant Mishra is saying this, so therefore I'm asking Kushal Kant Mishra, sir.
06:32Preethi, I think Preethi Chaudhary, if written Preethi Chaudhary…
06:39It doesn't matter, sir, you can call me anything.
06:41No, no, no.
06:42I'm okay with it.
06:43It's not about me and you, it's about who is fasting, who is going for Kavaniyatra…
06:49Let me ask you a question again.
06:51So you're saying during Navratra, those who… there are a lot of people who fast, sir.
06:55There are a lot of people in my family who fast for Navratra, you also fast for Navratra.
07:00Now I'll ask you a question.
07:01A lot of us step out to eat a Navratra Thali.
07:04You're saying only during fasting, right?
07:06So a lot of people will go out and eat a Thali in say a Haldiram.
07:10You, by the virtue of what you said, you are suggesting each person should ask.
07:15Or there should be name tags.
07:16No need to ask.
07:17In Haldiram, everybody has got their name tag.
07:20They don't, sir.
07:21How do you know who's cooked your food?
07:23How do you know who's cooked your food?
07:25Do you know it?
07:26So, we can ask.
07:28And no, Haldiram people don't have name tags.
07:30I don't know.
07:31It's not about an X, Y, and Z.
07:32But there are various other restaurants.
07:33Preeti, if I am fasting and if I have some doubt, I may ask what is the problem in that?
07:39There's no problem.
07:40I don't see any problem.
07:41I don't see any problem.
07:42I don't see any problem.
07:43If I feel that I am serving something which is not religious, then I have full right to
07:47ask.
07:48What is the problem in that?
07:49Sir, the fact is the problem is that, Dr. Kant Mishra, the problem is that you don't
07:55see a problem in that, but that's okay.
07:57That's fine.
07:58Because, Preeti, just 10 seconds.
07:59Of course, make a point.
08:00If the whole country is counting which caste you belong to, which religion you belong to,
08:07and everybody is writing, I am Jaat, I am Yadav, I am Brahman, I am Thakur.
08:13If it is pasted on everything, then what is harm in displaying it?
08:14What is it pasted on?
08:15I'm not understanding, sir.
08:16One second.
08:17You know, A, it's not a conversation between you and I, because you're making a completely
08:18bizarre analogy, which we'll touch on upon.
08:19I would reckon, I would think the reason the caste census is being demanded and asked
08:20for is that various castes that have fallen off the economic ladder get equal representation.
08:37I would think that's what it is for.
08:40It's for inclusivity, not to discriminate.
08:43I want to, but that's a conversation for another day.
08:45I want to bring in the, sir, allow me to bring in, allow me to bring in your counterpart.
08:50The debate is not between you and I.
08:51I'd like to bring in Ghansham Tiwari, spokesperson, Samajwadi Party.
08:54Ghansham Tiwari, like Dr. Kaushal Kant said, what is the problem in this?
09:00There is absolutely no problem as per the incumbent government and Dr. Kaushal Kant Mishra.
09:05And he said there's no problem.
09:06You know, if somebody wants to put their identity, wear it on their sleeves and offer it, why not?
09:13Good evening, Priti, to you, the viewers and fellow co-panelists.
09:17There are three important things and all of them are bizarre.
09:20One is the photograph that you continue to show.
09:22If I ever write a book called Legendary Fools, this photograph will be on its cover.
09:27That a chief minister is taking an aerial route to look at the Kamad Yatra.
09:32This is a chief minister whose government showered petals in Prayagaraj when the stampede happened
09:39and they could not even tell how many people died.
09:42While the stampede happened, when dead bodies were still lying there, they showered petals.
09:46This is the chief minister who came to power saying patenge katenge 80-20 kisarkar.
09:50But let's come to the second bizarre part, which is the argument that you are having with Kaushal Kant Mishra.
09:55If Kaushal Kant Mishra extends that argument, the way BJP is trying to extend it,
10:00they are saying not only that you as an individual have to say your religion, your enterprise also has to have a religion.
10:07So if you are a Muslim running a dhaba, the religion of your enterprise is Muslim.
10:13If Haldiram is acquired by a private equity company based in Saudi Arabia, then Haldiram's enterprise becomes Muslim.
10:20Similarly, if that logic is to be extended, then RSS will also have a counter identity, it's Hindu.
10:28BJP is Hindu.
10:29The moment you say that BJP is Hindu, RSS is Hindu, the next level comes, what is its caste?
10:34Is RSS a Dalit Hindu? Is RSS a Pichda Hindu? Is RSS a Brahman Hindu? Is BJP a Brahman Hindu?
10:41This is what is going to play out. The model of BJP, this is the third bizarre part.
10:45The model of BJP is,
10:47Ameeron ke liye, for their crony capitals,
10:50Dhan dhanne ka prasad hai, aur garibiyon ke liye nafrat ki politics hai, aur har baat pe jihad hai.
10:56They will ensure that the poor will face the titles of jihad, the way they eat, the way they dress,
11:03the way they open their shops, who they go out, how do they live their lives, what's there in their tiffin box, who's in their kitchen.
11:10None of them will have the audacity, audacity to go out and ask a Taj hotel.
11:16By the way, Taj, is it Hindu or Muslim? By the logic of BJP and bizarre logic, we don't know.
11:22Final point is, and I repeat this on your debate, that there's a 53-year-old man who's gone missing.
11:29And I appeal to your viewers to help us find him. His name is Kiran Rijiju.
11:33He happens to be the minority affairs minister of India. He should have a voice.
11:37But that voice is missing. He has started believing that his chair is for him to vomit so that eggs are formed.
11:44But the chair is a position of responsibility and courage. If he cannot show responsibility or courage, he should not wait for eggs to happen.
11:53He should just get out of the chair and let somebody else who has, Kiran Rijiju, if you are listening, your team is listening, get out of your chair.
12:01Resign if you don't have a voice. This bizarre model of untouchability has been there in the Hindu religion,
12:07is being continuously championed by RSS and now they want to extend it to Muslims.
12:13They would extend it to Sikhs. They would extend it to Christians.
12:16And they will label your clothes as Hindu or Muslim. They will label your enterprise as Hindu or Muslim.
12:21And they will ensure that while the ameer, every poor man is with a jihad model that BJP has constructed around them.
12:30Dr. Kaushal Kant Mishra wants to reply. Come in for a rebuttal. Go ahead, Dr. Mishra.
12:36Priti, I have never said that enterprises had any religion or any dhar.
12:41So, Mr. Ghantham Tiwari is taking me out the wrong way. Okay.
12:47It's person because you are not going to ask for counting the what is the name of any stall or shopkeepers.
12:55You are champion of caste based census. And you are asking the individual's caste. Then why not everybody should, if I am asked by government, this is my caste. Okay. Then why not to live with that caste? We are living with that caste.
13:14Mr. Kaushal Kant Mishra, which you are talking about census, you are talking about the census. It is happening, right? It is coming from religion. It is always coming from the same to how many percent of Muslims.
13:23Then what is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem?
13:25Then what is the problem? How are you mixing the census? Then the entire 33 kilometers?
13:30Priti. Priti. Priti. I am talking about the root of the coward yatra. How are you mixing a census which is being conducted? Which anyway? The religious…
13:37In the same way, in the same way as you are mixing, posting, Hindu is communal, in the
13:43same way.
13:44It's discriminatory, sir.
13:47Why you are not coming to Halal?
13:50Why till the time in 75 years, why nobody has questioned Halal?
13:55Why does SP keep mum?
13:57Why Congress keep mum?
13:58Why Indi Katwandan keep mum?
14:00We don't have any answer.
14:02Now, if the Hindu is saying, I am Hindu.
14:05It's not an argument between you and I, but it's a huge, you're conveying apple to oranges.
14:10We can get into it.
14:11But okay.
14:12I'll go back to him.
14:13Make your point.
14:14Make your point because the Samajwadi Party spokesperson also wants to come in for a little bit.
14:18Now, the PDA champion Samajwadi Party is now in Uttar Pradesh, in which you are 15-16
14:25lakh rupees.
14:26If you are a brahman, if you are a chhatri, if you are a Sikh, if you are a Sikh, then
14:31you have 10-12 lakh rupees, if you belong to the OBC category, and 8-10 lakh CST category.
14:36Sir, what's the connection?
14:37What's the question?
14:38The connection is that those who have tried to talk about the Hindus in terms of work,
14:43they are all champions of this political party, right?
14:47One second.
14:48Okay, so Dr. Kaushal Kanth Mishra, you are saying we should not have a caste census because
14:52your own government has announced it.
14:53No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
14:55Are you opposing the caste census?
14:56No, no, no, no, no.
14:57So you are saying the government has demanded, the government has fallen to the demand of
15:00the opposition.
15:01No, I am saying.
15:02They don't want to have it.
15:03Those who are champions of caste-based census, why they are hiding now?
15:07Isn't the government a champion?
15:08I want to ask you, Dr. Kaushal Kanth Mishra, isn't the government of India a champion of the
15:14caste-based census?
15:15No, it is decision of government.
15:17They have asked that they want a caste census.
15:20Aren't they the champions of it?
15:22So what is the problem in that?
15:25Let me ask you a question.
15:26That's what I am saying now, Preeti.
15:27What is the problem in that?
15:28Dr. Mishra, let me ask you a question.
15:29Should the credit of the caste census go to the government or should it go to the opposition?
15:33Whosoever is center government because census is a right of home ministry of central government
15:37of India.
15:38So who has announced it?
15:39You are saying the credit should go to the center?
15:41Yes.
15:42Then why are you criticizing it?
15:43I am not criticizing.
15:44I am saying everybody should place their caste census.
15:45You just did.
15:46Okay.
15:47I want to go back to…
15:48Okay.
15:49You are derailing the conversation, sir.
15:50I am saying…
15:51I am saying…
15:52I want to go back to the Samajwadi party leader, Ghansham Tiwari.
15:54Ghansham Tiwari, you do not speak of what caste she belong to, what the spokesperson said,
15:59where the halal industry is concerned.
16:01Yet you will raise questions on those who want to buy only from a particular community,
16:06especially during the time of coward.
16:08Hrithi, there is absolutely… you have absolutely no chance to engage in a rational debate on
16:15the… in a platform of absurd and bizarre.
16:18What BJP is doing, the model is absolutely clear.
16:21To disrupt the lives of the poor so that you know… in Bihar ensure that they keep thinking
16:26whether they will be able to vote for or not because of documents.
16:28In their home native place, let them keep thinking whether they could eat at a dhaba or not.
16:34Whether they can work at a certain place or not.
16:36And this whole halal business, where BJP itself had ministers and MPs and candidates
16:42who were part of this business at a global scale.
16:45That aside, halal is a thing.
16:48You are equating a thing with people.
16:51Now you want people to carry their religion on their sleeve.
16:54They want people to carry their caste on their sleeve.
16:57You want people to tag their enterprise with the religion and caste they come from.
17:03This will ensure that at least the poor will always live in anarchy and fear.
17:07And the rich that BJP serves, who pay BJP 13,000 crores of Chanda in the last 10 years,
17:13who pay through electoral bonds in different ways.
17:15The Prime Minister today does not represent the poor.
17:18He travels on a 8,000 crores plane, has all kinds of dresses, not because he represents the poor.
17:26So this model is a way to keep India poor, keep the poor dependent on the free anach that BJP offers.
17:33Okay.
17:34Last 30 seconds sir.
17:3630 seconds Kaushal, Dr. Mishra, go ahead make your point.
17:40Preeti, article 2526, right of religious freedom.
17:45PUCL versus Government of India.
17:48Food choice is fundamental right.
17:51FSSI Act 2006.
17:53Right to Information Act.
17:55Everything gives us a constitutional right to know what we are eating, where we are eating,
17:59what we want to eat, and this all is constitutional right.
18:03So, and till the time nobody has spoken anything about halal economy.
18:09And it's not about halal food, it's about halal product.
18:12My question is unanswered yet after 75 years of independence of country.
18:17Okay.
18:1830 seconds.
18:19The Samajwadi Party spokesperson, Ghansham Tiwari, make your point sir.
18:23In any normal constitutional democracy as we have been used to in India,
18:28a man like Chief Minister Aditya Nath would resign on this issue.
18:32A man like Kiran Rajiju would not go missing.
18:34Will not be blamed for warming his chair, but either find his voice or resign.
18:40And the Prime Minister will be back in India, answer this question in Parliament.
18:44But this is a government of bizarre, bizarre as I said.
18:47Okay.
18:48So, we expect nothing from this government.
18:50You know…
18:51More disharmony from the government.
18:52Okay.
18:53I am going to leave it at that.
18:54And I am going to just let our viewers decide on which side of sadly this communal divide
18:59that they stand on.
19:00Thank you for joining us.
19:01Thank you for joining us.
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