Gujarat: Mob Chants Anti-Muslim Slogans, Opposes Hotel's Inauguration https://thewire.in/communalism/gujarat-anand-mob-anti-muslim-slogans-opposes-hotel-inauguration
"If Muslims want to live in my country, they will have to say 'Jai Shri Ram'," said one member of mob that was protesting the opening of Blueivy hotel.
Cardiologist Shailesh Shah runs an 18-bed private hospital in Anand. He lives adjacent to the hotel.. I’m not against the Muslim community but Muslim owners building a banquet, hotel and restaurant in an area with three Hindu temples — Siddhivinayak, Ambaa maa and Saibaba — is wrong on all grounds. We wanted to stop the owners from inaugurating the hotel and therefore we protested.”
Of course, the cardiologist was not alone. In perhaps not-so-unprecedented scenes that define ‘New India’, several seemingly educated, self-employed, working-class professionals and housewives.