Be proud of Cong’s contributions to movement that demolished our Babri Masjid: Owaisi tells Priyanka
New Delhi: AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday slammed senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi on one of her tweets on the eve of Bhumi Pujan on Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
Owaisi took to Twitter and accused the Congress of making contributions to the movement “that demolished Babri Masjid”. Owaisi advised Priyanka to be proud of those contributions adding that he was glad that they have stopped pretending now.
"Glad that they are not pretending anymore. It's okay if they want to embrace this extremist ideology of Hindutva but why all this hollow talk about brotherhood? Don't be shy, please be proud of your party's contributions to the movement that demolished our Babri Masjid," Owaisi wrote on Twitter while replying to Priyanka’s tweet.
Earlier, Priyanka in a statement released across her social media handles had hoped that August 5 Bhum Pujan will spread the ethos of Lord Ram.
"Simplicity, courage, restraint, sacrifice, commitment, are the essence of the name Ram. Ram is with everyone, Ram is within everyone. With the message and grace of Lord Ram and Mother Sita, may the Bhoomi poojan ceremony of the temple of Ramlalla became an occasion for national unity, fraternity and cultural congregation," Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi, concluding the statement with a 'Jai Siya Ram'.
Glad that they are not pretending anymore. It's okay if they want to embrace this extremist ideology of Hindutva but why all this hollow talk about brotherhood?
— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) August 4, 2020
Don't be shy, please be proud of your party's contributions to the movement that demolished our Babri Masjid https://t.co/wT2H9GJ7MD
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Curbs on movement, assembly remain in force in Kashmir after protests against Khamenei's killing
Srinagar (PTI): Normal life in Kashmir was affected for the fifth consecutive day as partial restrictions on movement of people remained in force as a precautionary measure.
The restrictions were imposed on Monday after spontaneous protests broke out across Kashmir a day earlier against the killing of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israel joint strikes.
Chief minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday held a meeting with civil society representatives and religious leaders as part of efforts to bring the situation back to normalcy.
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After the meeting, Abdullah appealed to people to maintain peace while expressing grief and anger in "mosques, shrines and Imambaras".
The government has shut educational institutions till Saturday, and reduced mobile internet speeds.
"Restrictions on the movement and assembly of the people continued in many parts of Kashmir on Thursday," the officials said.
A large number of police and paramilitary CRPF personnel were deployed across the city to prevent gatherings of protestors, the officials said.
They added that concertina wires and barricades were placed at important intersections leading into the city, while asserting that these were precautionary measures imposed to maintain law and order.
The iconic Ghanta Ghar in the city centre of Lal Chowk here continued to remain a no-go zone after the authorities sealed area with barricades erected all around it on late Sunday night.
The move to seal the Ghanta Ghar came after it witnessed massive protests on Sunday after Khamenei's assassination in the joint air strikes by the US and Israel.
This is the first time since August 2019 -- when Article 370 was revoked -- that protests on such a large scale have taken place in Kashmir.
