{"id":36677,"date":"2018-01-24T15:57:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T10:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=36677"},"modified":"2018-01-24T16:08:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T10:38:40","slug":"shoe-hurled-asaduddin-owaisi-rally-triple-talaq-bill-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/shoe-hurled-asaduddin-owaisi-rally-triple-talaq-bill-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoe hurled at Asaduddin Owaisi during rally against \u2018Triple-talaq\u2019 bill in Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last few days, AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi has been holding several meetings as a part of the Tahafuz-e-Shariat (preservation of the Shariati) campaign.
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An anti-triple talaq bill meeting lead by AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owais<\/a>i was briefly halted on Tuesday after an unidentified person hurled a shoe at the Hyderabad Member of Parliament (MP). Owaisi was addressing a rally at Nagpada of South Mumbai, raising his reservation against the triple talaq bill when the incident took place.<\/p>\n

Over the last few days, Owaisi has been holding several meetings as a part of the Tahafuz-e-Shariat (preservation of the Shariati) campaign across different parts of the country.<\/p>\n

Asserting that the AIMIM president stayed unhurt in the incident, a senior police official said, \u201cOwaisi was voicing his opposition on the triple talaq issue at the rally around 9.45 pm when the incident took place.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, clearly stating that his \u201cvoice cannot be silenced\u201d, Owaisi said, \u201cWhen you are on the path of truth people will lay thorns in your path. These things don\u2019t affect me. The programme happened successfully and I spoke.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am willing to lay down my life for my democratic rights. These are all frustrated people, who cannot see that the government decision on triple talaq has not been accepted by the masses in general and Muslims in particular. These people (referring to the person who threw the shoe at him) are the ones who follow the ideology of the killers of Mahatma Gandhi, Govind Pansare and Narendra Dabholkar,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Speaking against the Triple Talaq bill<\/a>, Owaisi said, \u201cWill triple talaq stop after the law is brought in. There have been 8 rapes in 6 days in Haryana. Yet Modi has not spoken about it. Between 2005 and 2015 there were 88,467 dowry deaths in India, 22 women die daily due to dowry. A law is not the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Further terming Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s concern for women an eyewash, Owaisi suggested the government to allocate Rs 2000 crore for rehabilitation of women divorced under triple talaq.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy didn’t you (BJP) give even one ticket to a Muslim woman in the recent Gujarat state elections? Why are there just four Muslim legislators of BJP across the country,\u201d asked Owaisi.<\/p>\n

Also asserting that the AIMIM chief had continued his speech normally even after the incident, AIMIM MLA Imtiyaz Jaleel said, \u201cWe do not care for such incidents. Some people and parties do not want us to speak the truth. Mr Owaisi continued with his speech (despite the incident). We simply ignore these types of acts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"