The Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday, 9 September, registered a First Information Report (FIR) against All India Majlis-e-Itthehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi for allegedly disrupting communal harmony, flouting COVID-19 norms and for allegedly making ‘indecent’ remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Following his party’s rally on Thursday night, the FIR against the All India Majlis-e-Itthehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) head was filed at Barabanki municipal police station.
The Lok Sabha MP has been charged under several sections IPC including 153A (promoting enmity on the basis of religion, race, etc.), 188 (disregarding a public servant’s order), 269 (negligent act likely to spread disease dangerous to life), and 270 (malignant act likely to spread infection of disease) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Epidemic Act, according to Barabanki Superintendent of Police Yamuna Prasad.
Prasad told The Cognate, “In his speech, the AIMIM chairman made statements that harmed communal unity, claiming that the administration had demolished the 100-year-old Ram Sanehi Ghat mosque and taken its ruins which are contradictory to the belief and false.”
“Owaisi tried to disturb the communal harmony and provoke feelings of a specific community with this statement”, he further stated.
There is another allegation that says, the supporters of the Hyderabad MP in the rally in Katra Chandana violated the norms of social distancing and did not wear masks and Owaisi arranged huge crowds.
In the said rally, Owaisi was allegedly found targeting the Uttar Pradesh government and opposition parties for the “miserable conditions of the Muslim community in the state”.
“Muslims constitute 19% of UP whereas Yadav community leader becomes CM though they are mere 9% of the population. The Muslims are denied government jobs. The Muslims in UP are harassed and exploited. They have been denied a share in the power, education and basic facilities. They have been denied justice,” Owaisi had said in the rally.
Claiming that political parties only show interest in Muslims when elections are declared, he said, “The Muslim community is leaderless and no party is interested in addressing the grievances of Muslims in Uttar Pradesh.”
Owaisi was on a three-day trip to Uttar Pradesh ahead of the upcoming assembly elections.
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Ghazala Ahmad is the Delhi Correspondent for The Cognate.
