New Delhi: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) supremo Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday (July 27) attacked BJP-led Uttar Pradesh over showering flower petals on Kanwariyas within the state, saying the identical therapy just isn’t meted out to Muslims. “The BJP-led Uttar Pradesh authorities is showering flower petals on Kanwariyas utilizing public cash. We wish them to deal with everybody equally. They don’t bathe flowers on us (Muslims). As a substitute, they bulldoze our homes,” PTI quoted Owaisi as saying. “Should you love one neighborhood, you can not hate one other…. In case you have religion, then others even have religion,” the AIMIM MP added.
Earlier on Tuesday, sharing a number of information studies on his Twitter deal with, Owaisi had mentioned, “If a Muslim presents prayers in an open place even for a couple of minutes, it results in a row. Muslims are going through police bullets, custodial clashes, NSA, UAPA, lynchings, bulldozers only for being Muslims.”
Earlier this month, senior officers showered flower petals on Kanwariyas in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut.
An official spokesperson advised PTI that UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath performed an aerial survey of the ongoing Kanwar Yatra in western a part of the state on Monday and showered petals on Kanwariyas from the chopper. Adityanath’s helicopter reached the Siddhpeeth Parshurameshwar Puramahadev temple in Baghpat on Monday afternoon and flowers have been showered on the Kanwariyas from there amidst chants of “Har Har Mahadev”.
The Kanwar Yatra is being held within the state after two years because it was suspended earlier because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Through the Hindu calendar month of ‘Saavan’, yearly the Shiva devotees, also referred to as Kanwariyas, fetch the holy waters of Ganga to supply on the Shiva temples. These pilgrims go to Haridwar, Gaumukh, and Gangotri in Uttarakhand and Sultanganj in Bihar to deliver the waters of Ganga. This water is then supplied to Lord Shiva in temples by Kanwariyas of their areas.
(With PTI inputs)