AIMIM leaders to donate month's salary to Delhi riot victims

‘PM must mention violence in Mann ki Baat’

Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said PM Modi’s visit to the riot-hit areas in the national capital must have brought him in touch with the pain being faced by Muslims and he hoped he would narrate this sentiment in ‘Mann ki Baat’.

Tribune News Service

Hyderabad, March 1

The All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has termed the Delhi violence as “targeted structural violence” that could have been prevented if the Union Home Ministry intervened in time.

He was interacting with his party workers at the 62nd foundation day of the party here today.

The AIMIM has announced that all elected representatives of the AIMIM would donate one-month salary to the families of those killed in the Delhi violence. He also urged Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao not to allow NPR in the state as it was against the principles enshrined in the Constitution.

“The responsibility for the loss of lives lies squarely with the BJP and its government as the trigger was the speeches of BJP leaders. The killings took place with full planning and preparation. An atmosphere of hatred was created. It cannot be called a communal riot…it is a pogrom,” he said.

Expressing hope that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would rise above party considerations and act in the capacity of the leader of the country, he said, “We were hopeful that you (Prime Minister) might have taken some lesson from 2002 (Gujarat riots) and ensure such thing did not recur…,” Owaisi said.

Further, he said Modi’s visit to the riot-hit areas in the national capital must have brought him in touch with the pain being faced by Muslims and he hoped he would narrate this sentiment in ‘Mann ki Baat’. He said the Prime Minister did not make mention of the Delhi violence in his speech in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday even as he dwelt on ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’.

Owaisi pointed out that the Delhi Police was probably instructed not to respond to the calls of the Muslims affected by the violence. “So far, 42 lives have been lost and over 200 are injured, many seriously. The world is watching the developments in India and it is now up to the Union Government to come clean with its intentions of showing full faith in the Constitution,” he added.