‘Mukhtar Ansari is a martyr’: Owaisi triggers a row in Varanasi
Speaking at a public meeting, the AIMIM chief called PM Modi anti-Muslim and called out the SP and Congress for not speaking for the community.
An unidentified person on Tuesday hurled a shoe at AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi while he was addressing a rally at Nagpada in south Mumbai, police said. The Member of Parliament was not hurt in the incident, they said.
Immediately after the incident, the crowd began to disperse but the situation was soon brought under control by police. A case has been registered at Nagpada police station.
As a part of the Tahafuz-e-Shariat (preservation of the Shariati) campaign, the MP from Hyderabad has been holding multiple meetings across the country to protest against the Triple Talaq bill.
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Mr Owaisi was voicing his opposition on the triple talaq issue at the rally around 9.45 pm when the incident took place, a senior police officer said.
“I am willing to lay down my life for my democratic rights. These are all frustrated people, who cannot see that the government decision on triple talaq has not been accepted by the masses in general and Muslims in particular,” Mr Owaisi told PTI.
“These people (referring to the person who threw the shoe at him) are the ones who follow the ideology of the killers of Mahatma Gandhi, Govind Pansare and Narendra Dabholkar,” he said.
Mr Owaisi claimed that such incidents were happening at the behest of people, who follow “hate ideologies” and that they are getting emboldened with each passing day.
“This will not stop us from speaking the truth against them,” the Hyderabad MP said.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone-III, Virendra Mishra said the police were going through the CCTV footage and probing the matter.
(With PTI inputs)
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