Hyderabad: Hyderabad MP and AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday reacted to the firing by a lone gunman, identified by the Delhi police as a juvenile, at an anti-CAA protest in Jamia Millia area of Delhi, and challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “identify him by his clothes.”
He held minister of state for finance, Anurag Thakur, directly responsible for the shooting.
Nationalists creating hatred: Owaisi
In a series of tweets he wrote “Thanks to @ianuragthakur & all 9 pm nationalists who have created so much hatred in this country that a terrorist shoots a student while cops watch. Hi @PMOindia identify him by his clothes. (sic)”
He also hit out at the Delhi Police, who came in for sharp criticism after reacting violently against Jamia students last month. He tweeted “@DelhiPolice what happened to the bravado that you showed in #Jamia last month? If there is a prize for being helpless, bystanders you’d win it every time. Can you explain why a gunshot victim had to CLIMB over a barricade? Do your service rules stop you from being HUMANE? (sic)”
Mr Owaisi said that this incident took place on a day, “when we are remembering terrorist Godse’s murder of Gandhi, when students were going to march to mark the event. Such cowardice does not scare us. The protest will go on. This is now Godse versus India of Gandhi, Ambedkar and Nehru. It is easy to pick one side.”
He said in another tweet that this is the problem of a specific ideology, its supporters and ‘bhakts’. The lineage of this attack can be easily drawn from a Modi minister garlanding lynching convicts, his successor calling for ‘gaddars’ to be shot, badla, ‘clothes’, etc.
