Attacks on Muslims 'state-complicit Violence': Asaduddin Owaisi

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has termed the violence against Muslim community in MP, Karnataka, Gujarat, Goa, Rajasthan and other states as “state-complicit violence”.

Referring to the violence that erupted during Ram Navami processions in various states, Owaisi said the lives and properties of Muslim community were targeted. “Even a 70-year-old woman beaten up with heads smashed and elbows broken, 13-year old tortured, houses burnt and demolished. Is this the governance? Everyone should condemn it,” he said.

First, it was state-sponsored violence, then it was mob lynching and now it is state-complicit violence. Why is the state governments giving permission for processions if they cannot control them and maintain law and order.



Have any police officers been suspended for failing to stop violence?” he asked.

Condemning the violence in Karauli district of Rajasthan, he said the Congress government of Rajasthan too supported the violence.

To a question on the Madhya Pradesh government bulldozing houses, he said the authorities should have issued a notice to occupants before demolition. “Under what law were the houses were demolished. Only houses of poor Muslims were demolished. There are big illegal buildings. They are deriving sadistic pleasure out of all this,” he said.

To a question on the violence in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, he said if it was all about ‘belief’, the government should ban the export of meat to other countries.