Cong leader Nawab Malik compares Amit Shah to General Dyer on Jamia incident
Nagpur/UNI: Senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik on Wednesday said the way General Dyer had fired at the people in Jallianwala Bagh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah is firing at citizens of the country in the same way.
On Sunday, protests by Jamia Millia Islamia University students took a violent turn when protestors allegedly pelted stones on police and torched public buses, resulting in police to fire teargas shells and lathicharge to control the unruly crowd.
Endorsing Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s remark over Jamia Millia Islamia University and the Jalianwala Bagh massacre, Malik said that Shah is another General Dyer, who orders police to fire on unarmed people.
“The way General Dyer fired at the people in Jallianwala Bagh, Amit Shah is firing at citizens of the country in the same way. Shah is no less than Dyer. What Uddhav Thakceray said is correct,” he said.
The Sena president had on Wednesday said the Jamia incident reminded him of the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, where the Britishers had opened fire on unarmed civilians inside a park in Amritsar.
“What happened at Jamia Millia Islamia, is like Jallianwala Bagh,” Thakceray had told reporters.
It may be recalled here that General Dyer was a military officer and acting brigadier general when the massacre took place. Dyer led a contingent of police to the Jallianwalla Bagh near Golden Temple in Amritsar and ordered police to open fire on an unarmed crowd.
Image credit: Nawab Malik twitter page
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