Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy came under fire from MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi who alleged that he had taken no steps to curb communal incidents in the city.
Addressing a large gathering on Sunday night, Owaisi with members of the United Muslim Action Committee (UMJAC) by his side declared that it was the first of many UMAC public rallies which would ensure that the Congress does not return to power in the next elections. “The 80 lakh Muslims of the state will be at polling booths and will throw out the Congress democratically. Just wait and watch what happens in January when the UMAC begins touring every nook and corner of the state.”
Owaisi also called for a bandh on December 6 which marks the 20{+t}{+h} anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition. Narrating the chronology of events leading to the demolition the Babri mosque and drawing parallels with the Bhagyalakshmi temple issue, Owaisi said that miscreants had planted idols in the mosque at night despite the presence of a 15-member police picket. Similarly, on October 30 temple authorities tried to construct a permanent shed at the Bhagyalakshmi temple right under the nose of the police. Citing wakf inspector Mohammed Ibrahim’s reports on namazis being pelted with stones in Ayodhya, Owaisi likened it with the heavy police bandobast restricting movement of namazis near Mecca Masjid. “We must know history so that we are not betrayed again. The Congress government has ensured that we are lagging behind the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes,” he said.
Owaisi criticised the 2010 trifurcation judgment of the Allahabad high court and said that Muslims would not accept ‘charity’ because they were rightful claimants of the demolished mosque. “We want every inch of that space and there will be no compromise on this. We will not give up till the mosque is reconstructed and will not let communal forces be at peace. We will continue our democratic struggle without taking the law into our hands,” he thundered.
Launching a diatribe against the Archeological Survey of India (ASI), Owaisi alleged that the ASI claimed that the Pandava’s Indraprashtha was at the foot of the Old Fort in Delhi. He said that an obtuse ASI ‘closed its eyes’ when the Jama Masjid in Aurangabad Fort was turned into Bharat Mata Mandir Aurangabad fort a year after Independence. “Then in 1970 a temple sprang up at Charminar. The ASI did nothing. It is full of communally biased people,” he alleged.
UMJAC convenor Abdul Rahim Quraishi demanded the immediate implementation of the Liberhan Commission recommendations and the handing over of case records from the Allahabad high court to the Supreme Court for immediate hearing.
–Courtesy:TOI
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