New Delhi, April 25: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused the Congress party and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) of ‘preplanning’ the recent riots in Andhra Pradesh’s Hyderabad.
A fact-finding team led by Rajya Sabha Member Prakash Javadekar presented its report on Hyderabad riots to BJP National President Nitin Gadkari on Friday.
“The fact-finding team along with another member K. Laxman (National Secretary BJP) visited Hyderabad on April 7 and came to a conclusion that the riots were undoubtedly preplanned attacks on Hindus by the Congress and MIM combine,” said a BJP press statement.
The committee interacted with the victims and cross section of people including reporters, NGOs, public representatives of various political parties and senior police officials.
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According to BJP, the team felt that international terrorists organisations with the help of local outfits unlashed systematic violence against Hindus with the larger design to change the demography of the old city.
“One of the factors that has come to our notice is that there was an attempt to intimidate a section of people to vacate the properties with an objective to occupy or buy them at throw-away prices. This is reportedly one of the reasons for the flare up of riots in the old city area,” the fact-finding report said.
“This is also part of the larger design to effect a complete change in the demographic profile of the old city. Police and Government have been discriminatory. Instead of calling a spade a spade and booking cases on merits, the police are trying to balance the numbers which evidence discrimination. The way stones were pelted, the way people were stabbed point to hands of trained professionals,” it said.
The report alleged that the intelligence department of the police miserably failed in tracking the activities of the ISI and the other terrorist organisations.
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“The government has succumbed to the pressure from the MIM. In fact the arrests of Hindus is being done at their behest, they are preparing the list. The helplessness of the police is visible in this aspect,” the team charged.
The BJP has demanded judicial probes into the Hyderabad riots, along with immediate release of compensation to all the victims, who lost lives and property in the riots perpetuated by MIM fundamentalists, the party statement read.
Courtesy: Sifynews