Mumbai: The Sectarian Shiv Sena on Sunday demanded that voting rights of Muslims should be revoked in the country. The Sena also compared MIM and Owaisi brothers with “poisonous snakes” who spew venom to “exploit” the minority community.
“Vote bank politics is being played in the name of fighting against the injustice meted out to Muslims. Their educational and health status is being used politically. This politics was once played by the Congress and now every other person calls himself secular.
“If Muslims are only being used this way to play politics, then they can never develop. Muslims will have no future till they are used to play vote bank politics and thus Balasaheb had once said to withdraw Muslims voting rights. What he said is right,” an editorial in Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ said on Sunday. The “secular masks” of all the so-called secular political parties will be worn out, once their voting rights are withdrawn, it said.
Meanwhile after facing criticism from all quarters over the demand of the revocation of Muslims’ voting rights in editorial mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, Shiv Sena is trying to explain its position saying that the party is against appeasement politics and the violation of fundamental rights of Muslim women. Sena MLC and spokesperson Neelam Gorhe said the article doesn’t want Muslims’ voting rights to be taken away, but it is not right for people like Owaisi to nurture the deprived feelings of Muslims.