Nanded
police say they have received no complaint
Vishwa
Hindu Parishad leader Praveen Togadia tried to outdo Akbaruddin Owaisi within a
fortnight of the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA being sent to jail on
charges of delivering a hate speech at Nirmal town in Adilabad district of
Andhra Pradesh.
At a
public meeting at Bhokar town in Nanded district of Maharashtra, just 80 km
from Nirmal, on January 22 — details of which are now emerging after a
video-recording was posted online — Dr. Togadia attacked Owaisi in particular
and Muslims in general.
The VHP
leader was lustily cheered by the gathering as he continued with his
inflammatory speech, just as Owaisi’s speech was received with cheers by an
enthusiastic audience on December 22, 2012.
A police
complaint was filed against Dr. Togadia in Hyderabad on Tuesday after clippings
of his speech went viral on social networking sites.
The
clippings showed Dr. Togadia thundering about what happened in Nelli (Assam),
Bhagalpur (Bihar) and in Gujarat, where the police stood aside as Muslims were
massacred. “Ours is not a religion of cowards,” Dr. Togadia said, “but of
Goddess Bhavani, who always has weapons in her hands.”
This was
evidently a response to Owaisi’s challenge at Nirmal to withdraw police forces
for 15 minutes.
Besides
the nature of the speeches by Owaisi and Dr. Togadia, there are other
similarities too. Complainants in both cases approached the police and the
courts on the basis of video clippings on the YouTube.
Also, the
police at both Nirmal and Bhokar towns remained unaware of the explosive
content of the speeches despite monitoring the events. In Owaisi’s case, a suo
motu case was booked by Nirmal police on January 2 — 11 days after his speech.
Nanded
district police said they did not find anything amiss with the Bhokar public
meeting.
When
contacted on the phone, Bhokar Inspector of Police Sandeep Triyambak Munde said
police had issued permission for the meeting held at the Zilla Parishad ground.
Keywords:
Praveen Togodia, hate speech, tit-for-tat hate speech, Akbaruddin Owaisi, MIM, comminal violence
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