BJP cracks down on Owaisi’s Buldhana rally, questions Uddhav Thackeray’s silence over ‘Aurangzeb issue’
The Hindu
“Nobody in either Maharashtra or in the country has Aurangzeb’s blood running in them. So, who are these sons of Aurangzeb that have risen suddenly?”
No patriotic Muslim can have regard for Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis said on Sunday, while remarking that the minority community in Maharashtra and India were “not Aurangzeb’s descendants”.
Mr. Fadnavis, who was speaking in Nagpur, was responding to a question over the latest furore over the 17th century Mughal Emperor after slogans glorifying Aurangzeb were reportedly uttered at a rally held by All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi in Buldhana district on Saturday.
“Nobody in either Maharashtra or in the country has Aurangzeb’s blood running in them. So, who are these sons of Aurangzeb that have risen suddenly? The Muslims in this country are not his descendants…Aurangzeb had come here to oppress Hindus. Tales of his atrocities can run to thousands of pages. So, no patriotic Muslim can regard Aurangzeb,” Mr. Fadnavis, who is also the State’s Home Minister, said.
The BJP leader further questioned the intentions of persons attempting to glorify Aurangzeb while assuring that their motives would be revealed very soon.
“Who are giving such slogans? What are such people trying to do in Maharashtra? Who is behind all this? All this will come out soon,” Mr. Fadnavis said.
Mr. Owaisi, speaking in Maharashtra’s Amravati district on Sunday denied that any such slogans glorifying Aurangzeb had been uttered during his Buldhana rally, while warning he would file defamation cases against some local media channels for running “false news”.
“This is completely false [that such slogans were uttered during the rally]… I will book a case against media channels for showing false news,” the AIMIM leader said.
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