By IOL South Asia correspondent

NEW DELHI, December 25 (IslamOnline) - One person was stabbed to death and two others injured in a clash between two communities in the Indian Mehbubpura area late Tuesday night, December 24, police said. This is the second round of such violence since the Hindu nationalist BJP won the Gujarat elections two weeks ago.

The violence came a day after Narendra Modi was sworn in as Gujarat’s Chief Minister for a second term. Earlier this year, his administration was party to anti-Muslim pogroms in which thousands of Muslims were butchered and properties worth trillions of rupees (billions of U.S. dollars) were burnt down.

Police had to use teargas shells to disperse Hindu and Muslim mobs which indulged in stone-pelting. The unruly mob also set on fire two scooters. The situation was said to be peaceful now and under control, police said.

The fresh tension flared Monday afternoon in the Prabhudas Talav area of Bhavnagar, a town more than 200 kilometers south-west of Gujarat’s commercial capital, Ahmedabad.

Reportedly the riot started over the small issue of kite-flying between children of both communities, Police Superintendent Anupamsinh Gehlot claimed.

Gehlot said the police inspector of the area has filed a complaint against 14 people, both Hindus and Muslims. Three of them had been arrested. “We are on the look-out for the 11 persons,” he added.

Violence had erupted after the completion of the polls and various areas like Jambusar, Khera, Ahmedabad and Vadodra were placed under curfew. Later on December 15 two persons were killed in Rajkot and Vadodara cities as BJP candidates celebrated their victories.

Tension spread in the Gajrawadi area of Vadodara city, where a Congress worker Ashok Solanki (25) was stabbed to death with a sharp weapon.

At Rajkot, BJP worker Ramesh Raiyani was stabbed to death in the Jangleshwar area after the BJP took out a victory procession.

According to police, a group of BJP youth riding motor-cycles shouted anti-Muslim slogans, which led to Ramesh’s killing.

Curfew was imposed in the Raopura and Karelibaug areas of Vadodara, while trouble was also reported from Petlad in Anand district and from Kalupur in Ahmedabad.

In Vadodara district, the victory processions of BJP candidates from Raopura and Dabhoi turned violent and six people were injured, including one with a gun-shot injury, while six shops and four kiosks were set ablaze.

Heavy stone-pelting continued till curfew was clamped. In the evening, a shop belonging to a member of the “minority”, i.e., Muslim, community was set on fire.

Meanwhile BJP has decided that it will “replicate Gujarat experience” everywhere. Until now only its allies in the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (Wrold Hindu Council) had been talking in these terms.

Fresh from its victory in the Gujarat Assembly election, the BJP said it will “replicate" the “experience everywhere”.

BJP’s victory rally in Ahmedabad, December 22

“If anybody asks us whether we would repeat the Gujarat ‘experiment’ elsewhere, our answer should be: yes, we shall replicate our Gujarat ‘experience’ everywhere, because in Gujarat we have again proved to ourselves that collective work is the key to success,” Party President M Venkiah Naidu said in his presidential address to the two-day National Executive held in New Delhi during December 23-24.

Congratulating Modi for the “historic” victory of the party in the Assembly elections, he said it has electrified the atmosphere in the country and energized the party's rank and file everywhere.

Naidu said the Gujarat elections would be remembered not only for the nature and scale of BJP’s victory, but also for the “viciousness of the anti-BJP, anti-Hindutva..... anti-Hindu campaign conducted by the Congress and the Communists before, during and, sadly, even after the polls”.

Reacting to the BJP’s plans to use the Hindu card openly during the forthcoming elections, Rashtriya Janata Dal president, Laloo Prasad Yadav warned on December 24 that the BJP's hidden agenda was now out in the open and the people of the country must choose between secularism and communalism.

Laloo, a member of Parliament and a former chief minister of the eastern state of Bihar, termed the BJP’s game plan as “dangerous” and asked the party’s so-called secular allies to reconsider their stand.

Addressing a press conference, he, however, said the Gujarat strategy would not work in a plural and diverse country as ours.