Prayagraj,

16 May (HS): A memorandum of strong protest was submitted on Saturday against

the controversial statement of BJP leader Nitesh Rane comparing AIMIM party

with terrorist organization and party's national president MP Barrister

Asaduddin Owaisi with former Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Speaking

to a media channel, Maharashtra Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader

Nitesh Rane made an indecent and controversial statement, calling the AIMIM a

terrorist organization and comparing the party's national president, MP

Barrister Asaduddin Owaisi, to former Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. This has

caused widespread anger among party workers.

Regarding

this statement, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) today

submitted a memorandum to the President through the District Magistrate,

demanding strict legal action against Rane's statement. Metropolitan President

Afsar Mahmood stated that the AIMIM is a registered party with the Election

Commission of India, whose elected MPs and MLAs represent the country's

Parliament and Legislative Assembly, and councillors in municipal corporations,

municipalities, town councils, and district panchayats in various headquarters.

Therefore, calling a party registered by the Election Commission of India a

terrorist organization is against the law, the Constitution, and the Election

Commission's guidelines. Such a controversial statement constitutes a crime.

Appropriate action should be taken against the controversial statement made by

such a hawkish minister.

The

Maharashtra government should immediately dismiss the minister who made such a

controversial statement from its cabinet and publicly apologize to the

barrister and all party workers for his controversial statement against the

AIMIM party and its national president, Barrister Asaduddin Owaisi. Despite India

being the world's largest democratic, constitutional, secular republic, a case

should be filed against a party and individual for openly spreading hatred

through the media to set a religious agenda. The statement made by Minister

Nitesh Rane is controversial, indecent, unconstitutional, and condemnable. This

act by a minister who took an oath to the Constitution and holds a ministerial

position falls within the scope of legal proceedings. Appropriate action should

be taken. A stringent case should be filed against those who made

controversial, irresponsible statements, including false and misleading

allegations that madrasas are centers of terrorism and that guns are found in

madrasas instead of books.

The

main people who submitted the memorandum were Qureshi Ahmed Jafri, Ali Sher

Khan, Nizamuddin, Syed Irshad Alam, Iftekhar Ahmed Mandar, Meraj Ahmed, Shariq

Kaleem, Zubair Ahmed, Riazul Haq, Mohammad Ali, Anil Yadav, Tarannum, Mohammad

Iftekhar Ansari, Shahnawaz Hussain, Mohammad Zaid, Israr Ahmed Sahil, Gudiya,

Mehjabi, Nazneen, Shabina, Mohammad Arif, Adeeb Ali, Tausif Ansari, Shadab

Alam, Haseen Ahmed, Gulab Mohammad Taki, Mohammad Saeed, Shamshad Ahmed, etc.

were present.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi