“Am An Indian Muslim, Not Chinese Muslim”: Farooq Abdullah Jabs Centre

Mumbai:

Farooq Abdullah, the previous Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, has taken a swipe on the centre over alleged mistreatment of Muslims within the nation.

“We’re with you. We’ve got to maintain the nation as one, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari…I’m a Muslim, however an Indian Muslim. I’m not a Chinese language Muslim,” Mr Abdullah mentioned at an occasion organised by the Nationalist Congress Get together, or NCP, to have a good time the seventy fifth birthday of Chhagan Bhujbal, a senior chief of the NCP led by Sharad Pawar.

Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray, lyricist Javed Akhtar and NCP chief Ajit Pawar had been among the many leaders who attended the occasion.

Mr Abdullah’s remark comes simply days after two BJP leaders – an MP and an MLA – at an occasion in Delhi allegedly gave hate speeches that known as for “whole boycott” of a group, seemingly Muslims, which the opposition leaders and critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his get together, the BJP, have termed extraordinarily harmful.

“Everybody could also be totally different. However collectively we will construct this nation. That is known as friendship. Religions do not educate individuals to hate one another…That is Hindustan. It belongs to everybody,” mentioned Mr Abdullah, who was jailed for over a yr after particular standing to Jammu and Kashmir underneath the Structure was scrapped in August 2019.

Mr Thackeray’s attendance on the birthday celebration of NCP’s Mr Bhujbal has a reference to the Shiv Sena. For one, the NCP is the ally of the Sena group led by Mr Thackeray, whose rival group is led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.

Final week, the Election Fee allowed Workforce Thackeray to make use of the election image “flaming torch” for an upcoming by-election in Maharashtra. This image was utilized by the Sena in an election in 1985 and Mr Bhujbal had received from Mumbai’s Mazgaon constituency. Mr Bhujbal later left the Sena and joined the Congress, earlier than he finally moved to the NCP.