Anirudh Kejriwal, a Vice-President at JP Morgan, has alleged that he confronted caste discrimination throughout the buy of a flat at a residential society in Gujarat’s GIFT Metropolis.
In a sequence of posts on X, Anirudh Kejriwal mentioned, “Shocked to face blatant caste discrimination in Sant Vihar 1 Society, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. My try to purchase a flat become a nightmare as society’s administration is barring my entry attributable to caste.”
Tagging Gujarat Police, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, and different stakeholders, Kejriwal additional mentioned, “After paying a major advance, planning was underway to finalise the sale deed. However the vendor’s evasion on offering the NOC from the society was the primary crimson flag. Little did I do know, the actual challenge lay deeper.”
“My issues have been confirmed when the society’s chairman and administration brazenly said their refusal to permit individuals from ‘different’ castes to maneuver in. Within the coronary heart of Gujarat, this open discrimination left me in disbelief,” he added.
Kejriwal alleged that he was intimidated as practically 30 individuals gathered, threatening him with “dire penalties” if he proceeded.
“They demanded proofs of ancestry and caste, to which, underneath strain, I complied, hoping for a decision,” he mentioned.
“All my preparations, from monetary investments to non-public preparations, at the moment are in jeopardy attributable to this discrimination. The imaginative and prescient of an inclusive India feels tarnished within the very state main India’s improvement narrative,” mentioned Kejriwal.
Calling his expertise “nothing wanting a nightmare”, Kejriwal mentioned, “Worse but, I am warned that even when I handle to get in, happiness will probably be out of attain, and troubles will comply with. It is a bitter capsule to swallow. Selecting Gujarat, forsaking my life in Mumbai and the prospect to maneuver to Singapore, I by no means thought I would face such discrimination.”
“This expertise has been nothing wanting a nightmare. The ache of going through such open casteism, in a spot I selected with hope, is indescribable,” Anirudh Kejriwal mentioned.
Anirudh Kejriwal mentioned he would search authorized recourse to “reclaim my rights and funding”.