Hyderabad: All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech over women’s safety.
Asaduddin Owaisi questioned the Prime Minister’s commitment to addressing violence against women, stating, “If the Prime Minister himself doesn’t take women’s safety seriously, then how can we expect social change?”
Addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the occasion of the 78th Independence Day, Modi expressed concern over the rise in crimes against women, emphasising that such crimes should be thoroughly investigated and that those responsible should face swift punishment.
Modi said, “There is an outrage in the country over this. I can feel it. Crimes against women must be probed as soon as possible, and those who commit monstrous crimes should be punished as soon as possible.”
However, Asaduddin Owaisi, on X, pointed out that the Prime Minister’s government had approved the release of the rapists and murderers involved in the Bilkis Bano case. “She spent 15 years fighting for justice,” Owaisi noted.
Asaduddin Owaisi also highlighted Modi’s support for a candidate in Karnataka, MP Prajwal Revanna, who has been involved in a sex scandal. “Modi has campaigned for a candidate who is accused of the most heinous crimes against thousands of women,” he said on X.
He further questioned the ruling party’s stance on justice, asking, “When the ruling party releases convicted rapists, and they’re garlanded on their release, what’s the message going to criminals?”
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