AIMIM candidate for Dumri bypoll booked for ‘pro-Pakistan’ slogan raised throughout Owaisi’s rally in Jharkhand

By PTI

GIRIDIH: AIMIM candidate for Dumri by-election has been booked for alleged ‘pro-Pakistan’ slogan raised throughout the occasion chief Asaduddin Owaisi’s public rally in Jharkhand’s Giridih district, a senior official mentioned on Thursday.

Giridih Deputy Commissioner (DC) Naman Priyesh Lakra mentioned that the FIR was lodged at Dumri police station towards AIMIM candidate Abdul Mobin Rizvi, as he was the organiser of the programme, one Muzaffar Hasan Nurani and others.

The motion got here after a video went viral on social media, the place it was heard that somebody from the viewers raised the ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogan throughout the speech of Owaisi on Wednesday.

“It came to our notice that the slogan of Pakistan Zindabad was raised by the audience during the speech of AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi. After observing the video recorded during the speech by the video observation team, it was found that the act is a violation of the model code of conduct and an attempt to disturb communal harmony,” in accordance with an official assertion issued by the Giridih district administration.

The flying squad, constituted for the Dumri by-election, lodged the FIR at Dumri police station underneath related sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Representation of the People Act, it acknowledged.

Police are on the hunt for the one who raised the slogan.

Dumri Block Development Officer (BDO), Anwesha Ona, who can be a member of the flying squad, mentioned that the alleged video footage was examined with the footage of their videographers’ crew earlier than lodging the FIR.

“Now police will take action accordingly,” she mentioned.

The AIMIM Jharkhand president Md Shakir, nevertheless, refuted the allegation terming it a “tampered video”.

Owaisi was in Giridih district on Wednesday and addressed a public rally to hunt votes for his occasion’s candidate Md Abdul Mobin Rizvi within the Dumri meeting bypoll. The polling for the by-election to the Dumri meeting constituency will likely be held on September 5, and the votes will likely be counted on September 8.

The by-election was necessitated because of the loss of life of JMM MLA Jagarnath Mahto, the previous schooling minister, in April.

The JMM has fielded Mahto’s spouse Bebi Devi because the candidate of the INDIA bloc, whereas the AJSU Party has nominated Yashoda Devi because the NDA candidate.

In the 2019 meeting elections, Mahto defeated AJSU Party’s Yashoda Devi by a margin of 34,288 votes. AIMIM’s Rizvi was within the fourth place with 24,132 votes.

GIRIDIH: AIMIM candidate for Dumri by-election has been booked for alleged ‘pro-Pakistan’ slogan raised throughout the occasion chief Asaduddin Owaisi’s public rally in Jharkhand’s Giridih district, a senior official mentioned on Thursday.

Giridih Deputy Commissioner (DC) Naman Priyesh Lakra mentioned that the FIR was lodged at Dumri police station towards AIMIM candidate Abdul Mobin Rizvi, as he was the organiser of the programme, one Muzaffar Hasan Nurani and others.

The motion got here after a video went viral on social media, the place it was heard that somebody from the viewers raised the ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogan throughout the speech of Owaisi on Wednesday.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );

“It came to our notice that the slogan of Pakistan Zindabad was raised by the audience during the speech of AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi. After observing the video recorded during the speech by the video observation team, it was found that the act is a violation of the model code of conduct and an attempt to disturb communal harmony,” in accordance with an official assertion issued by the Giridih district administration.

The flying squad, constituted for the Dumri by-election, lodged the FIR at Dumri police station underneath related sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Representation of the People Act, it acknowledged.

Police are on the hunt for the one who raised the slogan.

Dumri Block Development Officer (BDO), Anwesha Ona, who can be a member of the flying squad, mentioned that the alleged video footage was examined with the footage of their videographers’ crew earlier than lodging the FIR.

“Now police will take action accordingly,” she mentioned.

The AIMIM Jharkhand president Md Shakir, nevertheless, refuted the allegation terming it a “tampered video”.

Owaisi was in Giridih district on Wednesday and addressed a public rally to hunt votes for his occasion’s candidate Md Abdul Mobin Rizvi within the Dumri meeting bypoll. The polling for the by-election to the Dumri meeting constituency will likely be held on September 5, and the votes will likely be counted on September 8.

The by-election was necessitated because of the loss of life of JMM MLA Jagarnath Mahto, the previous schooling minister, in April.

The JMM has fielded Mahto’s spouse Bebi Devi because the candidate of the INDIA bloc, whereas the AJSU Party has nominated Yashoda Devi because the NDA candidate.

In the 2019 meeting elections, Mahto defeated AJSU Party’s Yashoda Devi by a margin of 34,288 votes. AIMIM’s Rizvi was within the fourth place with 24,132 votes.