Owaisi inciting violence over CAA: Adityanath
The Hindu
U.P. CM terms AIMIM chief an agent of the Samajwadi Party
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday accused AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi of being an “agent” of the Samajwadi Party and trying to incite people in the name of a fresh protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Addressing a meeting of BJP booth heads in Kanpur, Mr. Adityanath issued a warning to followers of “chacha jaan and abba jaan,” asserting that if they try to “spoil the atmosphere by trying to incite the feelings of the State then the government knows how to deal with them strictly.”
Chacha jaan and Abba jaan are words of affection used by Muslims in parts of India for uncles and fathers, respectively. However, Mr. Adityanath and other BJP leaders have in their political speeches used the terms pejoratively for the minority community, which forms one-fifth of the population in the political behemoth that is U.P.