Owaisi slams UP over police post near Sambhal mosque

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday criticized the Uttar Pradesh government for starting the construction of a new police outpost directly opposite the Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal, an area that witnessed deadly violence in November, resulting in the deaths of four people.

In a post on X, the Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said that the state government only has funds to "open police posts and liquor bars" instead of schools and hospitals. Owaisi further claimed that data indicates the least number of government facilities are provided in Muslim-majority areas.

"A police post is being built in front of Jama Masjid in Sambhal. Go to any



corner of the country. The government there neither opens schools nor hospitals. If something is built, it is a police post and a liquor bar. The government does not have money for anything else, it only has money for police posts and liquor bars. The data itself says that the least number of government facilities are provided in Muslim areas," Owaisi said in a post in Hindi.

On November 24, four people were killed and several others, including security personnel, were injured in violence that broke out in the Kot Garvi area of the Sambhal when some locals clashed with police during a court-ordered survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid over a petition that claimed a Harihar temple once existed at the site.