AMN / NEW DELHI:
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind on Saturday expressed shock and dismay over Prime Minister Narendra and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s apathy towards the riots affected people of northeast Delhi.
“Over 50 people have been killed and hundreds injured and hundreds of homes, shops were looted and torched and thousands of people became homeless. This all happened just a few kilometres from the PMO. It is very shocking and shameful that Prime Minister and Chief Minister are not yet visiting the affected people,” said Jamaat’s national president Syed Sadatullah Hussaini.
Around two weeks have passed since the violence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has neither condemned the violence nor condoled the deaths. Three days after the violence, PM had posted a tweet in which he had appealed to people “to maintain peace and brotherhood.”
Addressing its monthly press conference, Jamaat chief demanded a high-level probe by the Delhi Minorities Commission because, he said, there are several allegations about passive or active involvement of police personnel also in 3-day long violence, and therefore only SIT probe is not sufficient. Addressing the press conference, Jamaat’s Vice President Mohammad Salim Engineer said that what happened in northeast Delhi “cannot be called clashes between two groups or communal riots. It was a planned attack and rioters were trained.
”They have distributed thousands of food kits and cooked food packets among victims. The volunteers rescued 30 injured persons and got them admitted at Al Shifa hospital, run by sister organization of Jamaat in Jamia Nagar in South Delhi. Most of them were treated free of cost.