MUSLIMS IN INDIA

Majlis ittheadul Muslimeen Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi in Malegaon, Mahrashtra addressing local Muslim Organizations on the event of Distribution of Aid by MiM party to Victims Of Mosque Bomb Blast.
Majlis party refuses to condole Rao’s death
In an unprecedented move, a Muslim political party Tuesday refused to endorse a motion in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly condoling the death of former prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao.
Members of the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) walked out of the house when members of all other parties were paying tributes to Rao.
Before walking out, MIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi said the community could not forgive Narasimha Rao for his "deliberate actions" which hurt the community and had provoked riots across the country in which hundreds of innocent muslims were killed and for enforcing draconian laws like Tada under which many Muslim youth were arrested and tortured.
"We cannot, or even history will not, forget the demolition of the Babri mosque which was caused due to his political inaction and his communal Mentality," he said.
Rao was the prime minister when Hindu groups brought down the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh Dec 6, 1992, triggering Hindu-Muslim violence.
MIM has five members in the 294-member house.
Later, the condolence motion was adopted with members cutting across party lines paying glowing tributes to Rao, who was also the state's chief minister.
Earlier, tabling the resolution, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy described Rao as the architect of India's economic reforms.
The house was adjourned after paying tributes to Rao and TDP legislator Paritala Ravi, who was shot dead Jan 24. Members cutting across party lines condemned his murder.
--Indo-Asian News Service
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