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Prayagraj: On May 24, Sunita Dayal, mayor of Ghaziabad and former Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party vice-president, posted an extraordinary video on her official Facebook page claiming, “Today I caught two Muslim children trying to throw remains of cow meat near Hindon Barrage in Indirapuram.” 

“Isi desh ka khayenge aur  yahin gandagi karenge (they live off this country, yet they dirty it too),” she could be heard saying in the over two-minute video posted on her page.

Two children are seen in the video, wearing skull caps and carrying a yellow sack on the carrier of a bicycle. In the video, in which a watermark has been added, the children’s faces are clearly visible and are not blurred. Visibly scared, they stood listening to the mayor’s haranguing them, answering questions thrown at them timidly. 

“Dimag patthar bana diya hai inka (their brains have been turned into stone)… is madarasse par na maine tala lagwaya toh baat nahi (just see how I will ensure that this madrassa is sealed forever),” Dayal could be heard as telling the children in an explicitly communal diatribe. 

“We called the........

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