UP: Tauqeer Raza says Muslims can even ask for a separate state

In his most up-to-date inflammatory remarks, Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, nationwide president of Ittehad-e-Millat Council, claimed that if the rhetoric of those that need ‘Hindu Rahstra’ is suitable, then so is the decision for Khalistan or a separate Muslim nation. “What if our Muslim youth start to demand a separate Muslim state tomorrow,” he requested. We don’t need to consent to a different division of our nation, he then added.

Interestingly, he didn’t point out that two separate nations carved out from India, solely for Muslims, exist already, referred to as Pakistan and Bangladesh. The Islamist chief was talking towards ‘Hindu Rashtra’ in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh.

He additionally made objectionable statements towards Prime Minister Narendra Narendra Modi and referred to as him ‘Dhritarashtra.’ He alleged that the Modi administration regularly helps and applauds those that kill Muslims and are against Islam.

He talked about that he expects that the feminine President of the nation will take heed to his recommendations significantly. He urged her to establish and take stringent motion towards those that attempt to incite communal violence within the identify of Hindu-Muslim within the nation.

“The government should take action by filing sedition cases against those who demand Khalistan,” he opined. “In a similar vein,” he additional stated, “action should be initiated against those who call for a ‘Hindu Rashtra.’ Otherwise, it will be assumed that calling for Khalistan is similarly legitimate when no action is being done on the demand for the former.”

He declared that the federal government’s double requirements wouldn’t be tolerated. He alleged {that a} survey discovered that round a million Muslim ladies had been lured by Hindu organizations. In the identify of ‘Ghar Wapsi,’ they have been kidnapped, threatened, married to Hindu boys, and transformed to Hinduism, he alleged. Although the Muslim chief supplied no tangible proof of his claims.

Notably, this isn’t the primary time when he has made such outrageous feedback. In February, whereas responding to the deaths of two cow smugglers in Bhiwani, he stated, “if the country is going to be ruled by stick (might), then our sticks are not weak either.” He additionally demanded a ban on Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal.

Last 12 months, he had forewarned Hindus that, the day when rage of Muslim youth will burst, “Hindus won’t find any place to hide in India,” whereas addressing a large crowd in Bareilly.

The radical cleric had overtly referred to as for bloodshed after the federal government enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), and demanded the centre to repeal the legislation.   

In 2022, he even demanded martyr standing for the terrorists killed within the Batla House encounter. He had alleged, that if an inquiry had been carried out, the world would have recognized that those that have been slain weren’t terrorists and ought to be thought-about martyrs.