| Rajkot |
Updated: February 4, 2020 3:05:39 am
Ratnal is also home to Gujarat Minister for Tourism and Welfare of OBC, Vasan Ahir. (File)
Some traders and residents of Kutch district, who supported a bandh call in protest of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on January 29, have alleged that they have been facing boycott from those supporting the new citizenship law.
While no complaints have been filed with the police, purported videos and messages calling for a boycott are doing the rounds of social media.
In Ratnal, a village in Anjar taluka of eastern Kutch, a group which identified itself as Akhil Bharat Desh Rakshak Samiti allegedly put up a hoarding that read “Jai Shri Ram: Anti-national elements shall not stop or park their vehicles and rickshaws in Ratnal village.”
While the hoarding has been taken down, police said there is no organisation by that name. Parikshita Rathod, Superintend-ent of Police, Kutch (East), said: “The banner was against ‘anti-nationals'. It does not require any action from our side.”
“Ratnal is only 3 km from our village, but people have stopped going there as they have put up banners which prohibit halt there,” said Juma Para, sarpanch of Chubdak village.
Para said that after…
