Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Delhi councillor Ravinder Singh Negi has stirred controversy by installing saffron flags on the carts of Hindu vendors as an attempt to distinguish Hindus from Muslim vendors.
In several viral videos, Negi, who represents the West Vindor Nagar ward of Delhi’s Patparganj assembly constituency, was seen asking vendors for their names and checking their identities. He then installs saffron flags to the carts of the Hindu vendors.
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Expressing his intention to differentiate vendors based on their religion, Negi is heard saying, “We Hindus should know whom we buy these things from.”
The Delhi BJP leader has a controversial history of his attempts at differentiating Hindus and Muslims. Similar incident took place in October 2024, where the BJP leader raided shops owners in Mandawali area and threatened to close the establishments owned by Muslims with Hindu names. He also have asked the Muslim shopkeepers to write down the names of the owners on the hoardings to differentiate shops based on religion.
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The politician, also made a X post about a similar issue of accusing a Muslim vendor for naming his shop “Tomar” (Hindu name) and wrote, “Tomar Dairy in the Mandavali ward of Patparganj assembly constituency has a Hindu name but its real name is a Muslim name, and we said that you should keep your real name, why are you playing with the Hindus by keeping a Hindu name, we will not allow any such shop to run in Patparganj assembly constituency which is keeping a Hindu name but is a Muslim”.
पटपड़गंज विधानसभा के मंडावली वार्ड में तोमर डेरी हिंदू नाम रखा है पर उसका असली नाम मुस्लिम नाम है, और हमने कहा कि आप अपना असली नाम रखिए हिंदू नाम रखकर हिंदुओं के साथ क्यों खिलवाड़ कर रहे हैं पटपड़गंज विधानसभा में बिल्कुल भी इस तरह की दुकान हम नहीं चलने देंगे जो हिंदू नाम रख रहे… pic.twitter.com/TtSLNZJCV9
— Ravinder Singh Negi (@ravinegi4bjp) September 27, 2024
In May 2024, Negi also made a controversial statement about the Lok Sabha polls, saying that the polls were a fight between the Sanatan Dharma and Muslims.
