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Asaduddin Owaisi Demands Law to Jail Anyone Who Calls an Indian Muslim 'Pakistani'

Edited By: Huma Tabassum

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Last Updated: February 07, 2018, 08:37 IST

File photo of AIMIM supremo Asaduddin Owaisi. (PTI Photo)

File photo of AIMIM supremo Asaduddin Owaisi. (PTI Photo)

"Bring a law that if any Muslim is called Pakistani, the person will face three year jail term," Asaduddin Owaisi said, but added that the BJP-led government will not bring such a bill.

New Delhi: All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday demanded that the government bring in a law to punish any person who calls an Indian Muslim "a Pakistani".

Speaking in Parliament, Owaisi demanded that the person held ‘guilty’ of such an offence be punished with a three-year jail term.

"Bring a law that if any Muslim is called Pakistani, the person will face three-year jail term," he said, but added that the BJP-led government will not bring such a bill.

Owaisi said Muslims living in India had rejected Mohammad Ali Jinnah's two-nation theory, but were still made to feel like outsiders.

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    (With IANS inputs)

    first published:February 07, 2018, 08:24 IST
    last updated:February 07, 2018, 08:37 IST