Probe all blasts since 1992: Asaduddin Owaisi
By IANS - HYDERABAD
25th January 2013 01:18 PM
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Asad Owaisi said Akbar was a political prisoner and accused the government of harassing him and playing with his life by making him travel from one town to other despite ill-health. |PTI File photo
MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has demanded a probe into all bomb blasts in India after the razing of the Babri Masjid in 1992.
Saying
he suspected the involvement of Hindutva forces, the Hyderabad MP referred to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde's statement that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) were spreading terrorism in the country.
Addressing a massive rally on
the occasion of Milad-un-Nabi early Friday, he attacked BJP leader L.K.
Advani for meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to defend Pragya Thakur and other accused in bomb cases.
Owaisi alleged that the BJP and RSS were targeting Shinde as he was a Dalit. The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) chief said his party was ready to work for unity among Muslims and Dalits.
"I am looking forward to the day when we will have leaders like Mayawati and Mulayam Singh in Andhra Pradesh. We will work with them," he said.
Thousands attended the meeting at the MIM headquarters which continued till about 12.30 a.m.
Owaisi clarified that his party was not against Hindus or Hinduism but against Hindutva forces and the Sangh Parivar.
He
accused the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh of targeting him, his
younger brother Akbaruddin Owaisi and other MIM leaders due to personal
vendetta. He vowed to defeat Congress in the next elections.
Owaisi accused the government of adopting double standards while dealing with the alleged provocative speeches.
"You
have charged Akbar Owaisi with sedition but not Swami (Kamlananda Bharati). You did not even oppose Swami's bail. You never arrested Praveen Togadia (booked for making provocative remarks in Hyderabad)," he said.
Akbar Owaisi, lodged in a jail in Adilabad, has been charged with sedition, waging war against the nation and promoting enmity between people.
Asad Owaisi said Akbar was a political prisoner and accused the government of harassing him and playing with his life by making him travel from one town to other despite ill-health.
The
MIM chief, released from jail Thursday in a seven-year-old case in Medak district, said they would not be cowed down by criminal cases.
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Comments(4)
Well Asad's legislatorship is itself illegitimate - which is why he has the audacity to compare incomparables and lie through his teech.
Posted by Kumaran at 01/25/2013 13:38 Reply to this Report abuse
It is indeed the weakness of our so called democracy where people like Owaisi are allowed even to speak. Do the minorities in muslim dominated countries indulge in violence as these people do here? Congress is playing in to the hands of minorities and will get wiped out in the next election if the party antagonises Hindus thinking that it is taking on BJP and RSS. Hindus have separate identity. All of them need not be in BJP. Congress should carefully understand this fact and act. Praveen Togadia might have spoken against a community but not against the country as akbaruddin has said. Any other country,his act would have earned him greater punishment. When we have jokers like shinde and diggy in the ruling party he can not expect more.
Posted by abusran at 01/25/2013 14:42 Reply to this Report abuse
It is indeed the weakness of our so called democracy where people like Owaisi are allowed even to speak. Do the minorities in muslim dominated countries indulge in violence as these people do here? Congress is playing in to the hands of minorities and will get wiped out in the next election if the party antagonises Hindus thinking that it is taking on BJP and RSS. Hindus have separate identity. All of them need not be in BJP. Congress should carefully understand this fact and act. Praveen Togadia might have spoken against a community but not against the country as akbaruddin has said. Any other country,his act would have earned him greater punishment. When we have jokers like shinde and diggy in the ruling party we can not expect more.
Posted by abusran at 01/25/2013 14:43 Reply to this Report abuse
Let all the probing expenses be born by Owaisis ..... when foolish government existing very foolish demands are coming from Muslims, if they are unable to live let them leave this country
Posted by Mahesh at 01/25/2013 15:29 Reply to this Report abuse