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Tensions ran high in Bareilly on Friday (September 26) as the Uttar Pradesh police lathi-charged Muslim protesters to control the angry crowd they had formed. Several policemen were injured and vehicles were vandalised in the clashes. In many videos, the police can be seen assaulting men near the Islamia ground.

Similar protests erupted in other parts of the country this week, and in some cases, clashes broke out between protesters and the police.

Reacting to the protests, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath said: “The rioters will recall their past seven generations. Some people’s bad habits don’t go away easily, therefore their dents need to be painted … In Bareilly, the maulana had forgotten who’s running the government … We will teach such a lesson that his next generation will forget rioting.”

In this live program, senior Journalist Sharat Pradhan joins Alishan Jafri to decode the protests and the state’s response to what is becoming a nationwide campaign.