Samajwadi Get together (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday alleged that efforts have been being made to scale back the nation’s minorities, particularly Muslims, to “second-grade residents”, and that their properties, together with locations of worship, have been being “grabbed”.
Talking in Lok Sabha throughout a debate on 75 years of the Structure, Yadav, flagging the problems of the PDA — Pichda (backwards), Dalit (scheduled castes), and Alpasankhyak (minorities) — additionally mentioned a “karo ya maro (do or die) motion was wanted to save lots of the Structure at present. The slogan marked the start of the Stop India Motion in opposition to the British.
In his speech, Yadav accused the federal government of neglecting the minorities and mentioned, “Atrocities are rising on them (minorities)… Their properties are being looted, they’re being killed, their homes are being demolished and their locations of worship are being grabbed with the assistance of the administration.”
Yadav highlighted how folks have been stopped from exercising their proper to vote. Referring to the current Meeting bypoll within the minority-dominated seat of Meerapur, UP, he mentioned, “Individuals throughout the nation would have seen that {photograph} displaying a police officer, on the course of UP authorities, stopping ladies from casting vote and threatening them by displaying a revolver.”
Drawing parallels with authoritarian regimes, Yadav mentioned: “This method is quickly heading in direction of dictatorship… Hitler, too, after getting elected by the folks amended the structure and established a dictatorship. Our authorities can be attempting to maneuver parallel to the identical.”
Yadav additionally alleged that in at present’s scenario, freedom of expression meant “deshdroh (sedition)” and “in case you are not with the BJP’s opinion and belong to a different faith, you’re entitled to (be) torture(d).” “And now there’s a drawback in worship too. As a result of parts trying to find a temple beneath each mosque don’t need peace within the nation and they don’t care in regards to the legislation,” he mentioned.
Yadav alleged the federal government was caring for “solely 10 per cent” of the inhabitants and that disparity had elevated within the nation after 2014. He mentioned that of the nation’s 140 crore inhabitants, 82 crore have been nonetheless surviving on authorities ration whereas 2/third of the nation’s complete property have been occupied by a couple of households”.
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