Woman who raised pro-Pakistan slogan at Asaduddin Owaisi's rally charged with sedition
Bengaluru/IBNS: The young woman, who had raised a pro-Pakistan slogan at the AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi's rally against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR) here, has been charged with sedition, media reports said.
The woman- identified as Amulya- has been sent to a 14-day custody.
Taking the microphone on the state, Amulya was asking people to shout along with her "Pakistan Zindabad" slogan.
The organisers of the event "Save Constitution" invited her to address the gathering soon after Owaisi came on the stage.
They were taken aback by her slogan.
#WATCH The full clip of the incident where a woman named Amulya at an anti-CAA-NRC rally in Bengaluru raised slogan of 'Pakistan zindabad' today. AIMIM Chief Asaddudin Owaisi present at rally stopped the woman from raising the slogan; He has condemned the incident. pic.twitter.com/wvzFIfbnAJ
— ANI (@ANI) February 20, 2020
Owaisi then rushed to snatch the mike from her hands and was joined by others who tried to remove her from the dais.
However, the woman was adamant and kept raising the slogan repeatedly.
The police had to intervene then and removed her from the dais.
Later, Owaisi also claimed that he denounced her action and asserted "we are for India."
"Neither me nor my party has any link with her. We denounce her. The organisers should not have invited her here. If I knew this, I would not have come here. We are for India and we no way support our enemy nation Pakistan. Our entire drive is to save India," the AIMIM MP said distancing his party from the woman.
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