“You are a Minister of the Indian Republic, not a monarch”: AIMIM chief Owaisi targets Kiren Rijiju over his claims of minority welfare under Union Government
"You are a Minister of the Indian Republic, not a monarch": AIMIM chief Owaisi targets Kiren Rijiju over his claims of minority welfare under Union Government
New Delhi [India], July 7 (ANI): All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi directed an attack on Union Minister Kiren Rijiju in response to his X post, which was about minority welfare in India.
Referring to Kiren Rijiju not as a monarch but as a minister of the Indian republic, the AIMIM chief explained that minority rights are fundamental and not a charity.
Asaduddin Owaisi, questioned, is it a privilege to be addressed as Pakistani, Bangladeshi, jihadi or Rohingya every day. He asked, is it is being kidnapped and forced onto Bangladesh that Indian citizens are being kidnapped and forced.
You are not a king, you are a Minister of the Indian Republic. Kiren Rijiju you stand at a constitutional office, not the throne. Minority rights are not charity. Is it an advantage to be called Pakistani, Bangladeshi, jihadi, or Rohingya day in, day out? Lynching is protection to be lynched? Is it protection that Indian citizens were abducted and driven to Bangladesh? Owaisi wrote on 'X'.
Asaduddin Owais, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi was questioned as well, whether it is his honour to be the target of his hate speech. According to the AIMIM chief, the Indian minority groups are not even second-class citizens, but they became hostages.
Is it an honor to watch our homes, masjids, and mazaars being bulldozed illegally? In order to become socially, politically and economically invisible? Is it a honour to be hate-speak on no less than the Prime Minister of India? The minorities of India are no longer even second-class citizens. The post X told us we were hostages.
Owaisi questioned Kiren Rijiju on whether can "Muslims" be inducted into "Hindu Endowment Board" and referred to Waqf Amendment Act as a law that compels non Muslims to Waqf Boards.
The AIMIM chief accused the Union Government of canceling the Maulana Azad national fellowship and restricting the post-matric and merit-cum-means scholarships claiming they were Muslim students.
If you wish to discuss the matter of "favours," then answer this: are Muslims permitted to be members of Hindu Endowment Boards? No. But your Waqf Amendment Act places non-Muslims on Waqf Boards - and places them in a majority. You scrapped up the Maulana Azad National Fellowship. You cut off the pre-matric scholarship. You cut back on the post-matric and merit-cum-means scholarships. Because it favored Muslim students. The only group whose enrolment in higher education has decreased is Muslims. They have increased their presence in the informal economy. Your economic policies have been one of the hardest hit on them. It is the data of your own govt, he wrote on 'X'.
Owaisi has mentioned that Indian Muslims alone are the only group whose children are worse than their parents or grandparents. He said that they do not request to be compared to other minorities of other nations but they want to see social, economic and political justice.
Indian Muslims are the only group where children are now worse than their parents or grandparents. Mobility between generations has been inverted. It is in Muslim-concentrated areas, where there is the most desperate lack of public infrastructure and simple services, which starve. We do not seek to be compared to other minorities of other nations. We do not demand more than the majority community receives. The post demanded what the Constitution guaranteed: social, economic, and political justice, the X post. (ANI)
