Pune activist files PIL against ‘anti-national’ Asaduddin Owaisi, Waris Pathan

A Pune-based social activist has filed a public interest litigation in the Bombay high court seeking legal action against All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi and party MLA Waris Pathan for refusing to chant “Bharat mata ki jai’’. The petition has also sought a ban on AIMIM.

Social activist Hemant Patil, who heads the NGO ‘Bharat against Corruption’, has termed the remarks made by both the political leaders anti-national. He has requested the court to order an inquiry into the speeches made by the two leaders in the recent past in which they had allegedly showed dishonour to motherland by such remarks.

The petitioner has claimed that speeches made by both the politicians amounted to spreading communal disharmony and hurting national integrity and unity of the country. He also said that such remarks are anti-national and have the tendency to break the social fabric of the society and divide the people on the basis of religion and parochial issues.

The petitioner also demanded a ban on AIMIM saying that remarks made by the duo amounted to violation of Representation of the People Act and were against the basic principles of the Constitution.

The PIL further sought a direction to the Maharashtra government, director general of police and secretary of home department to call for the records in respect of speeches delivered by Mr Owaisi at a public rally in Latur and Mr Pathan’s utterances in the state Legislative Assembly that they would not say ‘’Bharat mata ki jai”.