Opposition Alleges Chittaranjan Park Fish Sellers Threatened, BJP Says “False”
New Delhi:
A preferred fish market in south Delhi’s posh Chittaranjan Park neighbourhood is on the Centre of an enormous political row after a viral video confirmed some individuals objecting to the sale of fish subsequent to a temple and saying this was hurting their sentiments.
The fish stalls in Market No. 1 of Chittaranjan Park draw individuals from throughout the Nationwide Capital Area. Proper subsequent to the stalls is a Kali Temple that residents say is as outdated because the market.
The video exhibits a gaggle of individuals telling fish sellers that “this isn’t proper” and that the temple’s environment must be “pure”. “That is flawed. Sanatan says we can not hurt anybody,” a person is heard saying. He additionally says serving meat to the Goddess is “fictional” and there’s no proof of this in Hindu non secular scriptures. “Some individuals consider this. However what is occurring subsequent to this temple is hurting the feelings of Sanatanis like us,” he mentioned.
Serving meat to deities is a standard apply in lots of temples within the nation, significantly in jap India, the place a number of communities observe the Shakta custom.
The video exhibits the person saying that the Delhi Improvement Authority shall be “mounted” too. “DDA can not run, we are going to right their errors. The entire nation is watching,” he mentioned.
The video exhibits a person explaining that the market’s shopowners arrange the temple a long time in the past. One of many protesters replies, “If I battle this legally, it is going to be an extended course of. The principle difficulty is that it seems flawed subsequent to the temple. I can not perceive this.”
The video then exhibits a person asking a buyer about “jeevhatya” — that means the killing of a dwelling being — subsequent to the temple, which additionally has an idol of Lord Hanuman. The client responds that animal apply is widespread in lots of temples.
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra shared the video and accused “BJP goons” of threatening fish-eating Bengalis. “By no means in 60 years has this occurred, residents say,” she mentioned in a submit on X. She added that this was a “current” from the three-month-old BJP authorities within the nationwide capital.
These fish retailers have been allotted by DDA, this isn’t any unlawful encroachment.
If BJP had downside with CR Park Bengalis consuming fish, they need to have mentioned so of their manifesto.
Bengalis in CR Park are some of the educated communities in Delhi. Their sentiments and consuming… https://t.co/oRv2S8bHfi
— Saurabh Bharadwaj (@Saurabh_MLAgk) April 8, 2025
Sharing Ms Moitra submit, former Delhi minister and AAP chief Saurabh Bhardwaj mentioned the DDA had allotted the fish retailers and they aren’t a part of an unlawful encroachment. “If BJP had downside with CR Park Bengalis consuming fish, they need to have mentioned so of their manifesto. Bengalis in CR Park are some of the educated communities in Delhi. Their sentiments and consuming habits should be revered. I’m a vegetarian, and I by no means had downside with their consuming habits, why is BJP creating issues in such a peaceable space?” he requested.
Chittaranjan Park is a part of the Higher Kailash Meeting constituency that Mr Bharadwaj represented thrice in a row. He misplaced to the BJP’s Shikha Roy within the February election, after which the BJP got here to energy.
The BJP has trashed the Opposition chief’s cost and alleged that the video posted by Ms Moitra is “tailor-made” and geared toward disturbing peace. Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva has mentioned fish merchants at Chittaranjan Park have at all times revered the temple’s sanctity.
“Fish Markets have been legally allotted and wish of the world. The fish merchants mantain excessive degree of cleanliness within the space and take common half in socio non secular actions of CR Park. The video posted on social media by Smt. Mahua Moitra appears to have been tailor-made by individuals with vested political curiosity to disturb neighborhood concord in CR Park. We strongly condemn the incident and request Delhi Police to take stern motion,” he has mentioned.
TMC MP Mahua Moitra posted a video, ostensibly from CR Park in Delhi, alleging that sure people have been threatening distributors within the DDA-approved fish market situated subsequent to a Mandir. The video is fake and fabricated. It seems to have been shot with the intent to advertise… pic.twitter.com/CowSAE3gZi
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) April 9, 2025
Senior BJP chief Amit Malviya shared a video through which a journalist visits the market and asks individuals if that they had been threatened. Within the video, the temple’s priest and a few others are seen denying any such incident. “TMC MP Mahua Moitra posted a video, ostensibly from CR Park in Delhi, alleging that sure people have been threatening distributors within the DDA-approved fish market situated subsequent to a Mandir. The video is fake and fabricated. It seems to have been shot with the intent to advertise in poor health will amongst communities – and maybe to distract from the ‘versatile worldwide woman’ controversy that the TMC parliamentary social gathering at present finds itself embroiled in,” Mr Malviya mentioned in a submit on X.
