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Election Results Day in a West UP Town

Census 2011 tells me Hasanpur, my hometown has 34.55% Hindu population & 64.97% Muslim population. Christianity & Sikhism are the other two religions people believe in. Since I was born, I have seen a number of Mohalla fights (arguments) breaking out between the two majority communities in the few years I stayed here. Early days, when I was a child, this was rather common. Some kid from one community would beat up someone from the other faith and all concerned (read, unemployed) adults would huddle up together to solve the crime. Out of these crime scene situations, an understanding or say, a commentary had emerged among the Hindu clan, and it said, when the time comes, the Muslims help each other; they come together and they face the other side as one, but the Hindus, the Hindu are never united on anything. Hasanpur, Uttar Pradesh (Total population of the town basis Census 2015 is 211,533) 11th March 2017, afternoon I am in my hometown, since, the next two days, it...