Achi news desk-
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi
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On Saturday, Majlis-e-Muslimeen supremo Asaduddin Owaisi opposed the much-debated UAPA law. He said there was concern about the future of the Muslims, tribals and Dalits arrested under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. Referring to the High Court, he said that it seemed that the Modi government would improve after seeing the election results, but that did not happen.
Owaisi wrote in a social media post that the UAPA Act is again under discussion today. This is a very cruel law, under which thousands of Muslim, Dalit and tribal youths were imprisoned. Because of this his life was ruined. The AIMIM chief further claimed that strict rules led to the death of 85-year-old Stan Swamy. Tribal activist Swamy died in judicial custody in 2021. He was arrested under UAPA in the Bhima Koregaon violence case in 2018.
Owaisi opposed the Unlawful Activities Amendment Bill, 2019 in the Lok Sabha and blamed the Congress for enacting the UAPA Act. He said this law was tightened by the Congress government in 2008 and 2012. Even then I was against it. In 2019, when BJP again introduced stricter provisions and reliefs, Congress supported BJP. Again I objected to this law. He said I expected Modi 3.0 to take some lessons from the election results, but he also fell short of our expectations. The horrors and horrors will continue. The Hyderabad MP said sarcastically that he hoped Prime Minister Narendra Modi would learn something from the Lok Sabha election results. But the results crushed his hopes.
