After much drama the Andhra Pradesh police have finally arrested Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Member of Legislative Assembly Akbaruddin Owaisi for his alleged hate speech. Owaisi underwent a medical test at the government hospital before his arrest.
The bill to amend the law governing Waqf boards proposes far-reaching changes in the Wakf Act, 1995, including ensuring the representation of Muslim women and non-Muslims in such bodies.
According to television reports, MIM supporters attacked media vans in Adilabad, where a shutdown is being observed on Wednesday.
The statement came after Owaisi courted controversy by saying that five out of the seven martyrs in the Sunjuwan terror attack were Muslims.
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, who is facing allegations of making inflammatory speeches against a particular community, would surrender before the law, his brother and party president Asaduddin Owaisi said on Saturday.
The ongoing controversy over religious conversion was fuelled by Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi's Goshamahal in-charge Nanda Kishore Vyas is pitted against Raja Singh from Goshamahal segment.
As the news of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi's arrest spread, tension gripped parts of Hyderabad city. At many places, MIM supporters also forcibly imposed a bandh. The police have tightened the security and intensified patrolling in sensitive areas.
Shah had on Tuesday attended a party event in Lucknow where he said that the Opposition is spreading rumours about the CAA.
Another probe has been ordered against Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi over an alleged hate speech.
"Those who hoist the Pakistani flag, they should be punished," Katiyar said.
A total of 78 Muslims were in the fray in the Lok Sabha elections this year, a significant drop from the last polls when 115 Muslim candidates were fielded by various parties.
The Hyderabad MP trashed it saying he would not be cowed down by it.
As controversy raged over Yati Narsinghanand's objectionable remarks against Prophet Muhammad, his supporters on Sunday alleged that the Dasna temple head priest is being illegally kept in detention by police, which denied the claim.
Today as one sees the Owaisi brothers of Hyderabad seeking to lay claim as the custodian of the Muslim vote and the upholders of the community's interests, it is Shahabuddin who springs to mind for having been there, done that, says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
A united opposition is set to corner the NDA government on issues ranging from the NEET paper leak case to railway safety.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen will contest the upcoming Bihar state assembly elections from the Seemanchal region.
The police have sent the tapes of the alleged speech made by MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi to three different forensic laboratories to establish its authenticity. Vicky Nanjappa reports
The respective Dussehra rallies of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and and Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray chief Uddhav Thackeray were once again about whose version of Hindutva is genuine and who is the true inheritor of party patriarch Bala Thackeray's legacy.
Owaisi said, 'Srinagar is a ghost town. Yeh kya kar diya hai (What have they done)? The people are very angry. It moved us to see that people were searching for milk. We were told that since last three months children were not going to school, medicines or proper food have been in short supply. They said they were being tormented.They can't bear the torture of their youth."
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday staged a demonstration opposing any visit by All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslemin chief Akbaruddin Owaisi, who is facing charges of making hate speech, or his brother to Aligarh, claiming that it would breach peace in Uttar Pradesh.
Strongly reacting to the alleged communal statement of Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen Member of Legislative Assembly from Andhra Pradesh Akbaruddin Owaisi, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday demanded his immediate arrest and expressed its anger at the Centre's 'deafening silence' on the issue.
Accusing Owaisi brothers of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen's of "poisoning" the minds of Muslims, Shiv Sena today said the Hyderabad-based outfit would be defeated in the Aurangabad municipal polls the same way it was routed in the recently-held Bandra bypoll.
A first information report (FIR) was filed in Ghaziabad on Monday against Alt-News co-founder Mohammad Zubair for allegedly promoting enmity among religious groups and other offences following a complaint by an aide of controversial priest Yati Narsinghanand, according to police.
AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi has been banned from entering Bengaluru for a week.
The Bill to amend the Wakf Act, 1995, will make it mandatory for Waqf boards to register their properties with district collectors to ensure their actual valuation.
Hyderabad member of Lok Sabha and Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi has demanded a high level inquiry into the communal riots in Hyderabad over the last five days, and charged the police with behaving in a partial and biased manner.
In the video, Latha was seen asking the women voters at a polling booth to lift the burqa and show their face so that she could verify the identity.
A Vaishali court in Bihar's Hajipur on Wednesday issued summons to All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi to appear personally before it on August 11 in connection with his reaction against awarding of capital punishement to Mumbai blast accused Yakub Menon last year.
The FIR has been lodged on the basis of magistrate's report.
A Muslim man's beard was allegedly shaved off in Gurugram.
Hitting out at AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, Shiv Sena on Tuesday said that the minority leader should go to Pakistan and try his antics there.
The Delhi police has registered a first information report against AIMIM leader and MP Asaduddin Owaisi
The police have started interrogating Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen leader Akaruddin Owaisi about his alleged hate speech. According to police sources, though Owaisi is cooperating with the investigation, it will take the police some time to file a charge-sheet in the case.
Pune cops denied Asaduddin Owaisi permission to carry rally in Pune
Senior Muslim leader, veteran Parliamentarian and Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi was bid a tearful adieu by lakhs of his supporters on Tuesday when he was laid to rest at the Dargah Agha Dawood in Hyderabad.
What some of our leaders were up to on Wednesday, September 20, 2023.
Will the NIA 'get conviction' in Mecca Masjid blast, Ajmer Dargha blast and Malegaon blasts cases, he asked.
"We have strong reservations about the impact of Indo-US nuclear deal on foreign policy aspects but for us the top priority is to stop the Bharatiya Janata Party and L K Advani from coming to power. That is the why the MIM has decided to support the UPA government," Asad Owaisi told a press conference in Hyderabad.
The panel may recommend amending at last five articles of the Constitution to enable holding of simultaneous polls in the country.
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