Hyderabad: AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday launched a blistering attack on the Union government in Lok Sabha over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, saying it was aimed at making Muslims “stateless” and would lead to another partition.
Invoking Mahatma Gandhi, Owaisi said he was called Mahatma after he tore the discriminatory citizenship card in South Africa, and the Hyderabad MP then ripped the copy of the Bill to highlight his protest, inviting sharp reactions from the treasury benches which described his act an “insult” to Parliament.
Earlier, attacking Union home minister Amit Shah he had said the minister will be in the league of Hitler. Owaisi, while speaking on the Citizenship Amendment Bill said, “I plead with folded hands to save the country from this law and the home minister also, otherwise like in Nuremberg race laws and Israel’s Citizenship Act, home minister’s name will be featured with Adolf Hitler and Israel’s founder Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion”. His remarks infuriated the treasury benches, leading to a brief ruckus in the House. Speaker Om Birla responded to Owaisi's statement and said, “Please don’t use such unparliamentary language in the House.”
