Another year, another probable encroachment drive. But sections of TV media were back with the same headlines featuring Shaheen Bagh – skipping the tough questions about rehabilitation to orbit around a 2019 protest against the controversial citizenship law.
Amid outrage over a possible eviction of nearly 4,000 families in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani, after a high court order declaring the land as railway property, sections of the media tried to give the issue a communal spin, terming it “Shaheen Bagh 2.0”, and even alleging “land jihad” – a Hindutva conspiracy theory suggesting Muslims buy and encroach on properties as part of a campaign to displace Hindus and change demographics.
