Owaisi demands Akbar’s scalp

​New Delhi: All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday went all out against Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar, demanding his immediate resignation. 

After #MeToo campaign initiated by actor Tanushree Dutta took the social media by storm, many high-profile people have been accused of sexual harassment and MJ Akbar is among them. Owaisi, in a strongly-worded statement, took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying if the PM actually believed in NDA’s flagship ‘Beti Bachao’ campaign, then he should drop Akbar from the Cabinet forthwith. 

“Horrible this bloody perpetrator @mjakbar shame on you and you stood in parliament during T Talaaq Bill & spoke about Muslim women empowerment & to stop their exploitation, @PMOIndia sack this Minister of yours if you truly believe in Beti Bachao,” tweeted Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) on Wednesday. 

Earlier in the day, Congress also demanded that Akbar be sacked. Party spokesperson Manish Tiwari stressed that silence is not an option saying that the matter should be thoroughly investigated. 

“We would like to hear from both the minister in question and the Prime Minister on this issue,” Tiwari was quoted by a news channel as saying.

So far, at least 6 women have come out to accuse Akbar of harassment and molestation. Priya Ramani, former journalist at India Today, The Indian Express and Mint, was the first women to break her silence and to go on record that Akbar had called her to a hotel room and harassed her.