Dadri is second Babri, will raise issue in United Nations: Azam Khan

Stepping up the ante against the Centre, the Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence over the lynching of a 55-year-old man in Dadri in Uttar Pradesh, and demanded a probe against union minister Mahesh Sharma for “supporting the communal frenzy”.

Referring to the Dadri lynching case, Khan said Prime Minister Modi needed to address the issue of communal violence and added it was high time that concrete action is taken.

Khan said there was no way that 18 percent Muslims in the country could foil any such attempt. “I will take up the issue to the United Nations so that the world knows about what is going on in India”, he said.

Khan told reporters in Lucknow, “I have written a letter to the UN Secretary General explaining the condition of Muslims in India today and seeking his intervention”. “The entire agenda of Bihar elections has now changed. Why doesn’t the government cancel their licenses?” he asked. Muslims in the country are treated badly.

“If Hindustan becomes Hindu Rashtra then what will be the role of Muslims?”

Asserting that the Dadri incident is no less than the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992, Khan said that the RSS and the BJP have declared that they will create “Hindu Rashtra”.

A number of BJP leaders have visited the restive village in Greater Noida’s Dadri area, where prohibitory orders have been ordered to prevent further violence.

This, the complainant alleged, was a reference to the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots in which 63 people were killed and more than 50,000 were displaced.