Renowned social activist, Shabnam Hashmi said in a press conference on 18 March that Gujarat is still burning and the minorities do not feel safe in the state. She said the minorities are to face many challenges for their hailing from the minority community as the majority does not miss any opportunity to harass them. She claimed to have unbeatable proofs of Muslim traders being looted and harassed in the state. According to the report prepared by her team ANHAD, nine Muslim traders have been looted and their shops set on fire in a month time i.e. from 12 February to 11 March. But the media did not cover at all as it published only those pieces of news which are in favour of the Chief Minister, Narendra Modi.
ANHAD visited the state after a communal clash in the early days of February and found that Muslim traders lost properties worth around 2.5 million in the communal riot in February this year which was started over a petty personal matter of two persons.