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HYDERABAD/BHOPAL, APRIL 13
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday slammed Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for demolishing the houses of the accused involved in the violence during Ram Navami procession in Khargone, and said that it shows the “biased attitude” of the Chief Minister “towards the Muslim minority”.
राजस्थान, मध्य प्रदेश, झारखंड, कर्नाटक और गोवा की सरकारें, जुलूसों के दौरान हिंसा को रोकने और भीड़ को काबू करने में नाकाम रहीं। – बैरिस्टर @asadowaisi #IndianMuslimsUnderAttack https://t.co/Pu9tga7rvq
— AIMIM (@aimim_national) April 12, 2022
बैरिस्टर @asadowaisi राजस्थान के दौरे पर हैं। मीडिया को सम्बोधित करते हुए कहा करौली की घटना गहलोत सरकार की सबसे बड़ी विफलता है, एक विशेष समुदाय पर हुआ हमला, जिससे काफी बड़ा नुकसान हुआ है। pic.twitter.com/shO3eXJbXR
— AIMIM (@aimim_national) April 13, 2022
Addressing a press conference here, Owaisi said, “It is clearly state-complicit violence and a grave violation of the Geneva Convention. The government gives permission for the procession. How does the government let violence erupt in the procession? Houses and shops are set to fire in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Under what law the government of Madhya Pradesh has demolished the houses of the Muslim community? It clearly shows CM’s biased attitude towards the Muslim minority.” Notably, on the instructions of the Chief Minister, the district administration of Khargone and police demolished illegal buildings of miscreants involved in the attack on a Ram Navami procession. The authorities ran the bulldozer over about 45 houses and shops. Around 16 houses and 29 shops were demolished on Monday.
Owaisi, when asked about the scuffle that erupted on the occasion of Ram Navami in the JNU campus in Delhi over the alleged non-veg food issue, the AIMIM chief alleged that the BJP and RSS are taking the country on the way where the “nation is becoming weak”.
“Why don’t you ban the export of meat? You don’t ban it because you get the dollar. Will the country run on the basis of faith or the Constitution? We are telling the BJP and RSS that the way that you are taking the country, the nation is becoming weak,” he said.
Delhi Police on Monday registered an FIR against unidentified people in a case of violence inside the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus that resulted in the injuries of six students.
While the JNU administration said that no violence will be tolerated on campus and warned the students from getting involved in any incident which disturbs peace and harmony on campus.
Khargone violence: MP govt sets up claims tribunal to recover damages from rioters
The Madhya Pradesh government has constituted a two-member claims tribunal to recover damages from those involved in communal violence during the Ram Navami celebrations in Khargone city.
A gazette notification for setting up of the tribunal was issued on Tuesday, he said.
According to notification, the tribunal has been formed as per provisions of the Public and Private Property Recovery Act-2021, for hearing cases pertaining to the assessment of damages during the violence in Khargone city on Sunday.
The tribunal, headed by retired district judge Dr Shivkumar Mishra and also comprising retired state government secretary Prabhat Parashar, will complete the work in a period of three months, the notification said. The tribunal will also ensure the recovery of damages from the rioters involved in such cases, it added.
After the violence in Khargone during the Ram Navami festival on Sunday, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had said that the tribunal will be set up to assess the losses and for the recovery of damages from the rioters.
Curfew was clamped in the entire Khargone city on Sunday after stone-pelting during the Ram Navami procession triggered arson and torching of vehicles.
Nearly 100 people have been arrested so far in connection with the violence, officials earlier said.
