AIMIM Asaduddin Owaisi: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday (December 14, 2024) expressed concern over the call to survey or demolish some religious structures. Along with this, he made sharp attacks on PM Modi and alleged that Urdu language is being destroyed.
Speaking during a discussion organized to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Indian Constitution, Asaduddin Owaisi asked, “I am being asked whether there was a mosque 500 years ago. If I excavate the Parliament and find something, will it Will it be mine?”
Make PM read Article 26: Owaisi
During his speech, Owaisi mentioned about Article 25 and its provisions. His comment came two days after the Supreme Court said that no place of worship would be surveyed until the hearing of the petitions challenging the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 is over.
Owaisi Prime Minister Narendra Modi He also accused the Central Government led by him of trying to snatch away the Waqf properties. Owaisi said, “Read Article 26, it gives religious sects the right to establish and maintain institutions for religious and charitable purposes. The Prime Minister says that Waqf has nothing to do with the Constitution. Who read the Prime Minister? Make them read Article 26. You want to snatch it with your power.
‘Urdu has been destroyed’
Further in his speech, the AIMIM chief alleged that BJP is trying to destroy Urdu language and promote Hindutva culture in the country. He said, “Read Article 29, it gives freedom of language. Urdu, the language in which our freedom fighters raised the slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’, has been abolished. Ask them (BJP) about the culture, They will say that this is our cultural nationalism. Actually, this is not the cultural nationalism of BJP, this is the cultural nationalism of Hindutva which has no relation with the nationalism of India.”
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