Owaisi questions PM's silence on Muslim labourer's killing in Rajasthan

December 10, 2017 19:41

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the people in Gujarat he was pained by "abuses" hurled at him but kept mum on the heart-rending killing of a Muslim labrourer in Rajasthan.

Referring to the killing of Mohammed Afrazul, who hailed from West Bengal, allegedly in the name of "love jihad" on Wednesday, Owaisi alleged Muslims were being targeted under the BJP rule because of their faith.

"Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi no one called you a Pakistani ... I have been called a Pakistani for 70 years. Whom should I complain to?

"Now that you have been abused you are telling the people in Gujarat you were pained," Owaisi said at an event.

He alleged Modi referred to the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute as an issue of Ram Temple only and asked if he was the prime minister of "the Hindus or the entire nation".

Referring to Mani Shankar Aiyar's controversial remark against the PM, the Hyderabad MP said he did not approve of the language used by the Congress leader.

"I do not approve of the language. But you should have at least mentioned Afrazul during campaigning in Gujarat," he said.

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