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BJP slams Owaisi for remarks on Memon's hanging
BJP Slams Owaisi For Remarks On Memon\'s Hanging. A row broke out over the death sentence for Yakub Memon in Mumbai blasts case with All-India Majlis-e-Ithehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi suggesting he met this fate because of his religion and BJP leaders on Friday slamming Owaisi for his remarks.
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New Delhi: A row broke out over the death sentence for Yakub Memon in Mumbai blasts case with All-India Majlis-e-Ithehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi suggesting he met this fate because of his religion and BJP leaders on Friday slamming Owaisi for his remarks.
Addressing a public gathering in Hyderabad on Thursday, Owaisi said Memon was being hanged only because he belonged to a particular religion, adding that the death sentences of those convicted in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi were commuted to life imprisonment.
BJP leaders slammed MIM leader Owaisi for his remarks on the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon's expected hanging. Hitting out at the AIMIM chief, Law Minister Sadananda Gowda said "such statements show the mentality of the parliamentarian". "People who have nationalistic approach will not talk like this. Memon deserved such punishment as he had committed a grave crime," Gowda told the media outside parliament.
Bharatiya Janata Party parliamentarian from Unnaon, Sakshi Maharaj, said, "This country is not run by Owaisi; Memon has been found guilty by the courts, not us. This politics of communalism should be stopped."
Hitting back at Owaisi, Sakshi Maharaj, a BJP MP, sparked another controversy. "I think those who cannot respect this nation, cannot respect the national flag, cannot respect India's Constitution, cannot respect the judiciary such people do not have the right to live in India. The way is open, they can easily go to Pakistan," he said outside Parliament House.
Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani rubbished Owaisi's remarks. "It is not correct, our courts are impartial in such matters," said Jethmalani.
BJP also accused Owaisi of doing "communal politics" over terrorism and said that nothing can be "uglier" than this. Union Minister and senior BJP leader Prakash Javadekar said Owaisi has done "communal politics" over terrorism.
"There can not be an uglier form of communal politics. Owaisi sees religion in everything. The decision for execution is taken by the Supreme Court not government," Javadekar told reporters in Delhi.
