Hyderabad MP and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi held the Sangh Parivar responsible for the recent spate of crimes where individuals were beaten up for not chanting Jai Shri Ram. Asaduddin Owaisi said only Dalits and Muslims were being targetted. "People are being beaten up if they do not raise slogans of Jai Shri Ram and Vande Mataram. Such incidents aren't going to stop. Only Muslims and Dalits are being targeted. There are organisations behind such incidents and all of them are linked to Sangh Parivar," Asaduddin Owaisi told ANI.
Asaduddin Owaisi's statement came days after a 24-year-old man, Tabrez Ansari, was thrashed by a mob in Jharkhand for alleged theft and was forced to chant Jai Shri Ram and Jai Hanuman. Condemning the Jharkhand lynching, Owaisi had said that incidents now followed a familiar pattern.
"This is the pattern with almost all lynchings. First, a Muslim is murdered by cow lovers. Then the most ridiculous excuses begin: a 'suspicion' of beef possession, theft, smuggling & love jihad. So much for 'sabka vishwas' when we can be killed over mere 'suspicions'," he said in a tweet.