Owaisi slams BJP over ministers’ support for Kathua convicts

TIL Desk/National/Hyderabad/ All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said the Bharatiya Janata Party should answer why its ministers in the previous Jammu and Kashmir government attended a rally in support of the accused in the Kathua case.

“BJP needs to answer as to why their ministers came out in support of those accused,” he told. He claimed ministers belonging to the BJP (in the erstwhile BJP-Peoples Democratic Party coalition) attended a rally in support of the accused.

Replying to queries on the verdict in the case, he said “justice should be done whichever religion the accused belongs to”. He cited incidents of offences against girls and women at Madhya Pradesh’s Indore, Bihar’s Gaya and Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur and said justice should be done.

According to him, his party had condemned such incidents whichever religion the accused belonged to. Six of the seven accused in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Kathua were convicted by a court at Pathankot on Monday. Talking about arrest of journalists in Uttar Pradesh, he said it was misuse of power.