NEW DELHI — A Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest near Sealdah neighbourhood in West Bengal’s capital city of Kolkata took an unexpected turn off the street and onto a delivery app.
Muslim content creator — Instagram handle sajahan anyways — who was at the CJP demonstration in the Sealdah-Rajabazar area, alleged on Sunday that he was hit with a religious provocation mid-protest: a Blinkit notification for a Cash-On-Delivery (COD) order of pork bacon, with the customer’s name saved as “Hey Mullah.”
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According to screenshots shared by him, the order was placed by a user identified as Shourjya Shikhar Betal. The single-item cart: a packet of pork bacon, Rs 228, COD.
In his post, the protester called it a deliberate attempt to provoke but said it wouldn’t shake his beliefs.
“You sending me Pork with my name as ‘Hey Mullah’ will not make me hate you. Neither will it stop me from believing what is right,” he wrote, adding a jab at the sender for not prepaying — “You should not have sent that in COD. The least you could’ve done was pay for what you have ordered. Under this regime, Rs 228 is luxury, brother.”
He turned the focus to the delivery worker, who he said was also Muslim and named Mohammed, and had to ride from Park Street to Sealdah only to find no recipient.
“You jeopardised his safety… Do you know the cost he has to pay for ethanol-blend petrol in this economic crisis?” he wrote.
Ending on a conciliatory note, he wrote: “I know you are sad with your own life, and that is how hating the Muslims eases that pain… I need you to know that I don’t hate you. I understand you. And, from the bottom of my heart, I do believe that one day you will change your views.”
