Ban right-wing groups too: Owaisi on PFI ban

September 28, 2022 13:43

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi says he does not support the Centre's ban on Popular Front of India (PFI).

"While I have always opposed PFI's approach and supported democratic approach, this ban on PFI cannot be supported. How come PFI is banned but organisations associated with convicts of Khaja Ajmeri bomb blasts aren't? Why has govt not banned right wing majoritarian organisations?

"We should remember that Congress amended UAPA to make it stringent and when BJP amended the law to make it even more draconian, Congress supported it.

"This case will follow the timeline of (Siddique) Kappan (journalist), where any activist or journalist is randomly arrested and takes two years to even get bail," Owaisi said.

The government on Wednesday banned Popular Front of India, alleged to be involved in several violent and terror incidents and having "links" with global terror groups like ISIS, along with its several associates for five years following the second round of crackdown against its leaders.

Besides PFI, the organisations which were also declared banned under the stringent anti-terror law UAPA include Rehab India Foundation, Campus Front of India, All India Imams Council, National Confederation of Human Rights Organisation, National Women's Front, Junior Front, Empower India Foundation and Rehab Foundation, Kerala.

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