By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, March 31: A writ petition has been filed in the AP High Court, urging the court to declare the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Mus-limeen an anti-national party and to debar it from contesting in any election in future on the basis of the hate speech by its leader Akbaruddin Owaisi in Nirmal and Nizamabad in December 2012.
S. Janardhan Goud, a city advocate moved the petition, submitting that the MIM leader’s speech was not only provocative, but also showed disloyalty towards the nation.
The advocate alleged that the MIM MLA had made certain unwarranted comments against Hinduism.
The advocate told the court that he lodged a complaint against the MLA to the Chief Election Commissioner and Chief Electoral Officer of the state asking that the MIM be de-recognised and that the MLA be punished for committing such offences.
He said that the Chief Election Commissioner said in his reply that when the MIM was not a recognised party its derecognition was not relevant. He said that as per the official website of the CEC, AIMIM was registered as an unrecognised party, but in AP it was a recognised one.
He urged that the court declare the rejection of his complaint as illegal.
