Owaisi’s party urges Centre to ban dharam sansads that call for genocide of Muslim

Mumbai: At its national party conference held in Mumbai on Sunday, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) passed a resolution that urged the Union government to take measures to stop occurrences of Dharam Sansads that calls for the genocide of Muslims in the country.

The resolution also called out increased incidents of attacks against Muslims, other minorities and Dalits by the right-wing groups under the BJP government. The resolution was moved by Aurangabad MP Imtiaz Jaleel

“Ban criminal organisations participating in violence and repeated hate speech; and arrest their ringleaders. Provide compensation to the victims of majoritarian violence and rehabilitate the families of those persons who have been lynched or killed in the name of Hindutva,” the resolution read.

The increased attacks on Churches, Mosques and religious symbols such as azaan, hijab, halal and meat have created a sense of fear in minorities and Dalits, the denial of fundamental human rights to life, livelihood, property, privacy and religious freedom, the resolution said.

“It has been observed that Dalits, Muslims and other religious minorities across India have been facing increasing violence at the ends of state authorities and non-state vigilante groups connected to the Sangh Parivar. These attacks include attacks on churches, mosques and religious symbols such as azaan, hijab, halal and meat. Such violence has forced minorities and Davits to live in fear and has denied them their fundamental human rights to life, livelihood, property, privacy and religious freedom,” it read.

In a veiled attack against the Congress party, the AIMIM also said it condemned the silence and unwillingness of “self-identifying secular parties” to counter such hate speech and violence.

The AIMIM said referring to the Congress party that the parties, which identify themselves as secular, are also seen as silent and reluctant instead of being proactive to counter such hate speech and violence.

The resolution called upon the Centre and respective state governments to clamp down on illegal criminal organisations that have undertaken a “systematic campaign of terror” in the garb of cow protection, anti-conversion and love jihad.

The resolution also stated that many individuals had been arrested and are languishing in prison unjustifiably. The laws are being used to persecute Christians and Muslims.