In a high-profile demonstration Community harmony exist himachal pradesh. A death ritual typically performed on a Nepali Hindu man who lived in a Muslim dominated village was done with the help of his Muslim neighbours and a Hindu family.
Approximately five years ago, a girl child, pastor of the Jol Sapper Panchayat, tells that Ashok Kumar Meena Kumari a man approximately aged in between 8 and 10 years old, was found in Banh village of Hamirpur district bringing along with him a troop of Nepalese youths searching for jobs in India.
While the largely Muslim residents of the house offered him a home, the boy had been left there to live, having lost his group, or taken from it. Yes, one of the families handed her over to look after him and housed him in their place.
Over the years, Ashok matured and began to earn money working as a construction laborer and later as a mason, leading a content family life in the village.
In Ashok’s case, it was the local Kashmiri Muslims who came forward to nurse him. They took him to Tanda hospital, but unfortunately, Ashok died, she said and informed that the cremation of the deceased was done by a local union on Saturday. Up in Rajour, a Hindu woman and a Muslim man from the village performed last rites for the deceased according to Hindu rituals.
As the vice president of All India Gujjar Mahal Sabha vain: “God created mankind. No two religions or belief systems are the same but the need for coalitions exists to protect brotherhood and oneness.”
Kumari said it was an unprecedented act of solidarity. She added: “The Muslim community members by carrying out the last rites of the deceased in tandem with the last rites of the deceased according to the beliefs of the Hindus do more than meet a cultural expectation; they show reaffirm the spirit of her people.”
There was another local Kuldip Rai from a few villages away who disclosed that the locals have immersed Ashok Kumar’s ashes in the Becam River. On Sunday Ashok Kumar’s ashes immersed in river with the Gyap and with all the hindus.
