AIMIM leader Waris Pathan booked for 'communal' remark
Kalaburagi, Feb 22(UNI) All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Waris Pathan was booked for his alleged remark against the Hindu community in his speech during an anti-CAA rally held here recently, police sources said on Saturday.
According to police sources, the FIR was registered against the AIMIM leader, following a complaint lodged by a woman advocate on Friday evening.
Taking strongly about the incident, the Karnataka Home minister Basavaraj Bommai, had directed the Kalaburagi city police commissioner to submit a report on the incident.
It may be recalled that the AIMIM leader, in his speech at a rally held in the city on February 15 had said that if all the 15 crore minority population in the country stand united they could take on 100 crore Hindu population.
He made the comment while addressing a rally against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Kalaburagi in Karnataka.
"They tell us that we have kept our women in the front - only the lionesses have come out and you are already sweating. You can understand what would happen if all of us come together," he said in reference to the Shaheen Bagh protest in Delhi where hundreds of women and children are agitating against the act.
What is CAA?
The CAA will grant citizenship to all Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi but not Muslim refugees who came to India from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan before 2015.
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