AIUDF condemns attack on Abu Asim Azmi in Maharashtra Assembly

By TwoCircles.net News Desk,

New Delhi: All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) has condemned attack on Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Asim Azmi in the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra today for taking oath in Hindi, the national language of the country.

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena had threatened newly elected MLAs against taking oath in any language other than Marathi. Ignoring the threat when SP member Azmi stood up and started taking oath in Hindi, MNS members sprang up, rushed towards Azmi and started slapping him. He was mercilessly hit on chest and shoulders.

AIUDF) has termed the ugliest incidence that occurred in Maharashtra today as ‘most shameful’ for a democratic setup.

MNS MLAs slapped Abu Asim Azmi, president Samajwadi Party (SP), Maharashtra and MLA from Bhivandi while he was taking oath in the assembly house only because he ventured to use his constitutional right while taking oath in the national language -- Hindi.

“It is a highly condemnable act and all right minded people across political spectrum should openly oppose such violence,” said Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, the president of AIUDF.

AIUDF has demanded that the Maharashtra government must take the toughest action possible to make up the crime and to protect individual democratic right keeping intact the unity and integrity of the nation.

“AIUDF believes that if an elected member of the legislative house is physically attacked in the house itself that means there is something seriously wrong going on out there in some political parties. If it went without inflicting the perpetrator appropriate punishment, would entitle the license to slap, punch, kick and humiliate anyone on the minor issues such as regional, lingual and racial bias in dignified places. If Maharashtra is in India, it is for all Indians and any language speaking by an Indian citizen must be accepted with in constitutional framework,” the party said in a statement.

AIUDF president Maulana Ajmal has requested all peace-loving Mumbaikers and all Indians generally to keep patience and seek justice through legal process.