Kutba village in Muzaffarnagar — the home of Union minister of state Sanjeev Baliyan — struggles to erase memories of the September 2013 Hindu-Muslim riots. Three years later, the village is also a symbol of the possible polarisation in the forthcoming UP elections. Those who leftAlijaan comes to the village occasionally to see the hamlet where he was born and grew up. Read: Hindu inmates observe roza with Muslims in Muzaffarnagar prisonBaliyan asked him to go back to Kutba and make a fresh start. Read: Not another Muzaffarnagar, pleaseChaudhary Mangeram, who heads 12 villages of the Baliyan Khap, feels both communities should sit and resolve their grievances.

Source: Hindustan Times September 26, 2016 01:30 UTC