Lessons of Brotherhood: Farmer Leaders Visits Students In Muzaffarnagar School Incident (Image: Twitter/Bolta Hindustan)
A video is now viral on social media in which the farmer leaders are seen visiting the school boy from Uttar Pradesh, who was beaten by his friends on the orders of the school principal.
In the video, the boy and his classmate who beat him on the command of the teacher are hugging each other following the instructions of the farmer leaders including Naresh Tikait.
The new video is shared from a verified X (formerly Twitter) handle Bolta Hindustan.
“Farmer leaders went to their house and appealed for brotherhood, making them hug”, the post captions.
जिस बच्चे ने स्कूल टीचर के कहने पर अपने दोस्त को पीटा था
किसान नेताओं ने उनके घर जाकर दोनों को गले मिलवाया, भाईचारे की अपील की pic.twitter.com/lMGoPNNGgS
— Bolta Hindustan (@BoltaHindustan) August 26, 2023
The farmer leaders are seen blessing the children, Mr Tikait also took both of them to sit on his laps.
A video of Ms Tyagi, Principal of Neha Public School in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar, ordering the students slap the boy went viral on social media. In the video, the teacher refers to the child’s Muslim faith, and talks disparagingly about “Mohammedan children”. She was seen asking the students to beat up the child and mentioning his Muslim identity, even though his friends resists.
Ms Tyagi is the principal of the school. In the video, she also declares that the parents of the children belonging to the particular faith are not paying attention to their education matters.
On Saturday, she has come up with a justification for her actions. “The video that was made viral was edited and cut, I had no such intentions”, she said in an interview given to ANI. “The boy was hit for an hour because he did not study multiplication tables”, Ms Tyagi explained.
“In our place, Hindus and Muslims stay with unity and we have more Muslim students in our school. There was pressure from the parents of the child to be strict with him”, she added.
Police booked Ms Tyagi at the complaint of the boy’s family for instigating communal hatred by urging Hindu students to hit a Muslim child for not doing his homework.
