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BJP criticises MIM address

HYDERABAD: The Bharatiya Janata Party took strong exception to Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi’s speech in the Assembly on Thursday and criticised Speaker K.R. Suresh Reddy for allowing the member to deliver an address that was aimed at “inciting communal hatred.”

BJP MLA G. Kishan Reddy squatted in front of the Speaker’s chamber throughout the morning session demanding expunction of the remarks “supporting the extremists.”

He called off his protest only after the Speaker offered to look into his demand. State BJP president Bandaru Datatreya, who called on the agitating member, expressed surprise over the failure of Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and Home Minister K. Jana Reddy to intervene and to ask the MIM member to observe restraint.

Alleging that the Congress was according priority to MIM, he urged the Congress leadership to rethink its “vote bank politics”.

Mr. Kishan Reddy alleged that the remarks made by MIM members criticising police for its attempts to arrest terror suspect Vikar Ahmed were only proving the apprehensions that the “party was providing shelter to terror elements.”

He faulted the chair for not stopping the members in spite of the “unparliamentary language” they were using on the floor of the House.

Criticising the Congress for its efforts to “appease even terror elements”, he faulted its leaders for not condemning the MIM members who were speaking in support of terror suspects.

Mr. Reddy alleged that the transfer of police officers like A.K. Mohanty and four city police commissioners were proving the charge that the Congress government was acting on the “instructions from Dar-us-Salam”, the headquarters of the MIM.

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