Mumbai: Strongly condemning the Saamna article written by Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, Muslim clerics Sunday demanded from the government a probe into the exact motive behind the "hate" and "divisive" agenda of the saffron party.
"It has now become necessary to thoroughly probe the origin of these people, and their exact motive behind issuing hateful and divisive statements", Mehmood Daryabadi, Secretary General of All India Ulema Council said.
In the article published in the latest issue of the Shiv Sena's mouth-piece Saamna, Raut, also a Rajya Sabha member, addressed All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Owaisi as "Owaisi bhai from Hyderabad" and said: "As long as Muslim votes are for sale, the community will remain backward and its leaders will become rich."
In the article written in Marathi, he said it was because of this that Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray had said "voting rights for Muslims should be taken away".
"Are they willing to divide the country again? It should be investigated on whose directions they are spewing venom against Muslims and other minorities every now and then", Daryabadi said.
"Before demanding to scrap rights of Muslims to vote, Sanjay Raut should first explain why Bal Thackeray was stopped from voting by the Supreme Court", he added.
The Congress too slammed the ruling NDA government for spreading hatred, and also demanded after the article in Shiv Sena's mouthpiece Saamna sought revoking voting rights of Muslims.
"The Saamna thinks it lives in some Talibanised land and not in a democratic country like India. The Saamna has no place in culture like ours," Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi told reporters in New Delhi on Sunday.
Congress leader Anand Sharma asked why communal comments keep pouring in despite of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's assurances.
"It is very clear you have elements who are out to create conflict and division in the society and inflame passion. Despite the prime minister's repeated assurances in parliament, senior (BJP) leaders and members of Sangh Parivar keep making such statements," Sharma told reporters in the national capital.
"It is time they realise, they have been elected to provide governance not to create daily commotion," he said.
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