Right to life is also for Muslims, Asaduddin Owaisi tells Yogi Adityanath

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Jul 25, 2018, 18:33 IST

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Right to life is also for Muslims, Asaduddin Owaisi tells Yogi Adityanath

HYDERABAD: AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday sought to remind Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath that the fundamental right to life, includes for Muslims too.
Owaisi said India should be governed according to the constitution, with rule of law and not sentiments of majority or minority which will lead to anarchy. “Fundamental Right to Life under Article 21 is for human beings (which includes Muslims also).

Hope you understand,” Asaduddin Owaisi said in a tweeted to Yogi Adityanath.
The Hyderabad MP was responding to what the Uttar Pradesh chief minister had said in a news report. “We'll provide protection to everyone, but it's the responsibility of every individual, every community and every religion to respect each other sentiments. Humans are important & cows are also important. Both have their own roles in nature. Everyone should be protected,” Yogi Adityanath was quoted saying in the news report which Asaduddin Owaisi referred to.
Yogi Adityanath had also talked about lynchings. “These incidents are given unnecessary importance. If you talk about mob lynching, what was 1984? Law & order is a matter of state. Congress' intention to make mountain out of a molehill won't be successful,” Yogi Adityanath had said.

Asaduddin Owaisi also targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for criticism. “If Modi really wants to honor his promise that the constitution is India’s holy book, then he needs to stop the cow from becoming a cloak for the cowardice of men who hate their fellow citizens,” he said.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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