Tribune News Service
Hyderabad, November 10
All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has questioned, “How a person who demolished somebody’s house can get the same house.”
Addressing a public meeting here late last night on the eve of Milad-un-Nabi, Owaisi found fault with the Supreme Court judgment in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute case and asked, “Why senior BJP leader LK Advani was being tried for the demolition of Babri Masjid, if the structure was illegal.”
He asked the gathering, “When a person demolishes your house and agrees to arbitrator with the person who did so, will the arbitrator hand over your house to the person who demolished it and order that you will be given an alternate land at some other place. If this happens, how’d you feel?”
Owaisi said he had a democratic right to oppose the judgment, nowhere does the constitution prohibit him from doing so. He clarified that he was not committing a contempt of court reiterating that the Supreme Court was not “infallible”.
“Babri Masjid is our legal right. We were not fighting for the land. We don’t want anything in charity. Don’t treat us like beggars. We are respected citizens of this country,” he said.
The Hyderabad MP said contesting the Babri Masjid case was important as the BJP and Sangh Pariwar have a list of several such mosques.
“These organisations are saying they don’t have any list. If this is true, then why are they not withdrawing cases for Kashi and Mathura mosques,” he asked.
He questioned the silence of so-called secular parties like SP, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
Babri Masjid is our legal right. We were not fighting for the land. We don’t want anything in charity. Don’t treat us like beggars. If Babri Masjid was legal then why was it (land) handed over to those who demolished it— Asaduddin Owaisi, Hyderabad MP
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