by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Hyderabad : MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said justice was yet be done for the families of the 42 people who lost their lives in the 2007 twin bomb blasts in Hyderabad.
Reacting to the verdict of a city court, which convicted two accused and acquitted two others, he said that closure for the victims had not happened.
The Hyderabad MP told reporters that the investigating agencies should properly conduct a fresh inquiry and the accused who were absconding should be brought to book.
The Second Metropolitan Sessions Court on Tuesday held Anique Shafiq Syed and Akbar Ismail Choudhary guilty. The quantum of punishment will be announced on September 10.
Farooq Sharfuddin and Sadiq Ahmed Sheikh were acquitted for lack of evidence.
The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) president said the blasts were the tragic moment for Hyderabad.
“Justice is yet to be done and families of the 42 people who lost their lives and the 54 injured are still suffering,” he said.
Owaisi said that he personally knew a Sharma who lost his daughter in this terror attack.
The MP said the youths who were acquitted spent nine years in jail. “What will happen to them?”
While 32 people were killed at Gokul Chat, a popular eatery, 10 others lost their lives at Lumbini Park, near State Secretariat, in near simultaneous blasts on August 25, 2007.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Hyderabad : MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has welcomed the statement of Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao that a third front as an alternative to the BJP and the Congress will emerge in the country and said this will have a far-reaching impact.
The Hyderabad MP told reporters on Sunday that the statement by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief would have a far reaching impact on national politics.
The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) president hoped that KCR will play a pivotal role in bringing together non-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and non-Congress parties.
Owaisi predicted that the regional parties will have a key role in the formation of the next government at the Centre.
He said the country was looking towards regional parties and also towards the parties which could offer an alternative to the BJP and the Congress.
The MIM leader said the statement by the TRS chief was encouraging as there is a big vacuum in the country.
“He rightly said people are vexed with the BJP governance and Congress is not becoming a viable alternative nor can it become one,” said the MP.
Owaisi was all praise for KCR, as the Chief Minister is popularly known, and said the country needs leaders like him and thinking like his.
He said KCR struggled and proved himself as a political leader and an efficient Chief Minister.
Owaisi said KCR not only proved himself by achieving Telangana state but also proved those wrong who had predicted that Telangana will be a failed state.
“KCR has the capacity, capability and and acceptance. He has given the best governance in Telangana during the last four years and made Telangana a progressive and number one state in the country,” said Owaisi.
The MP believes KCR also has political sagacity and foresight.
“Those who talk of qualitative change in politics and are looking for a change will have to think and come together,” he said.
Owaisi declined to speculate on which parties will be part of the proposed front. “Let us not speculate. He has given his idea and I am sure it will appeal to all,” he said.
“I am insignificant,” Owaisi remarked on whether he will be part of the proposed alliance.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Asaduddin Owaisi
Hyderabad : Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday said that the BJP is practising “pakoda politics” in the country.
“What is happening is all ‘pakoda politics’,” he said while reacting to the violent protests in some states against Bollywood movie “Padmaavat”.
While the Hyderabad MP did not elaborate on “pakoda politics”, his remarks were an allusion to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent statement that a man making Rs 200 daily by selling “pakodas” can’t be called unemployed.
“The unemployed are burning buses, attacking bus of school children, setting afire vehicles and shopping malls,” he said and alleged that those indulging in violence had the tacit support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Referring to Modi’s statement at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos that his government had replaced red tape with red carpet, Owaisi said the red carpet was rolled out for those resorting to violence.
MIM president alleged that Modi had meekly surrendered to “these people”.
The Hyderabad MP said there was no rule of law, as in the name of Rajput sentiments some people were being allowed to do whatever they want.
Owaisi said the manner in which the government acted on complaint by Rajputs that the film hurt their sentiments showed its bias.
“For the sentiments of Rajputs, the government formed a committee, changed the name of the movie, deleted many scenes and even heroine’s midriff was covered, but what about sentiments of Muslims whose personal law is being interfered with by the government,” he asked.
The MP said the government brought the triple talaq Bill without consulting the community and was trying to bulldoze it in Parliament by refusing to refer it to a select committee.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Asaduddin Owaisi
Hyderabad : MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday rejected claims by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he had facilitated Muslim women’s travel for Haj without ‘Mahram’.
The Hyderabad MP said that a regulation by Haj authorities of Saudi Arabia was in force for many years which allow women above the age of 45 years to perform Haj without a ‘Mahram’ if they travel with a group.
He told reporters here that women above 45 years of age from Indonesia, Malaysia and several other countries had been performing Haj under this Saudi regulation.
‘Mahram’ is a male relative of a woman with whom she is permanently forbidden to marry by Islam.
Modi in his ‘Mann Ki Baat’ speech on Sunday had said that his government had removed the restriction which allows Muslim women to perform Hajj only in the company of ‘Maharam’. He had stated that injustice was done to women for decades.
“It has become the habit of the Prime Minister to claim credit for everything. If tomorrow women in Saudi Arabia are allowed to drive, he will claim credit for the same,” he said.
The MP said if Modi had so much concern for Muslim women, he should do justice to Zakia Jafri, widow of former MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed in the 2002 Gujarat riots.
“This is all tokenism. If Modi is really concerned about Muslim women, he should provide 7 percent reservation for them in education. He has two-third majority in Parliament and he can bulldoze a bill in this regard,” the MP said
On the passing of a bill in Lok Sabha over triple talaq, the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) President said that if it became a legislation, it would be the biggest injustice to Muslim women.
He argued that since marriage in Islam was a civil contract, there could be no penal provision. He also pointed out that the Supreme Court in its order on the issue did not ask the government to bring a criminal law.
“The government is saying that Muslim countries have banned triple talaq but the fact is that there is no penal provision in any Muslim country.”
Owaisi alleged that the real objective of the government was to do away with all forms of talaq and snatch Sharia from Muslims.
The MP said abandonment of married women was a bigger problem than divorce.
“The rate of abandonment is twice the rate of divorce. There are 24 lakh abandoned women and they include 20 lakh Hindu women, two lakh Muslim and 90,000 Christian women,” he said.
“The married women should get their right to live with their husbands whether they are in Gujarat or in Delhi,” he said.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Asaduddin Owaisi
Hyderabad : MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said the Sangh Parivar wants to use Ram temple issue to save Narendra Modi in the 2019 general elections as he has failed on all fronts.
He said the RSS, VHP and BJP should not be allowed to polarize the voters on temple issue and justified the stand taken by Sunni Wakf Board’s lawyer Kapil Sibal in Supreme Court that the hearing of the title suit be deferred till the elections.
Talking to reporters here, he said a leader of VHP has announced that the temple construction will begin in October 2018 while RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has stated that only a temple can come up in Ayodhya.
“These statements are all aimed at influencing and threatening Muslims and raking up the issue before the elections to save Mr Modi, who has failed to provide jobs, check farmers’ suicides and his actions like demonetization and GST have destroyed business in the informal sector. The elections should be held on these real issues,” he said.
“When you don’t allow release of a film in Gujarat on the ground that it will influence the elections, how can you ignore the impact the temple issue may have?” he asked.
The MP also dismissed criticism of Sibal in a section of media and said he was representing Sunni Wakf Board in the apex court and not the Congress.
He reiterated that Sunni Wakf Board need at least six months to present its arguments before the court as a voluminous record of 17,000 documents need to be translated.
Replying to a query, the Hyderabad MP sad Parliament can’t legislate on the temple till the matter is in the Supreme Court.
“We have separation of powers. The judiciary, executive and legislature are independent. If somebody wants to become a dictator, then people will decide,” he said.
Owaisi said the issue of Babri Masjid was not an issue of Muslims but a matter of justice.
“Even after 25 years of the demolition of Babri Masjid, the case against the accused who instigated people through their provocative speeches and which led to the demolition has not been heard,” he said.
He reiterated his support to the suggestion by Justice M.S. Liberhan (retd.), who had headed the commission probing the conspiracy behind the razing of the disputed structure, that the hearing of title suit be deferred till the criminal case was disposed of.
—IANS
