“Cowardice, violence and murder are an integral part of Godse’s Hindutva thinking. The lynching of Muslims is also the result of this thinking,” Mr Owaisi tweeted.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat, at a Muslim Rashtriya Manch event yesterday, said those guilty of the “mob lynching” of Muslims and other minorities are “against Hindutva”. However, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi hit back at Mr Bhagwat’s attempt to distance the Hindutva ideology from those who commit such crimes.
In a series of tweets on Monday, furious Owaisi slammed “criminals who don’t know the difference between cows and buffalos…but know enough to kill people based on names from a particular community”. The top Muslim leader accused a “Hindutva government” of emboldening these “criminals”.
“RSS’s Bhagwat said those who committed lynching are ‘anti-Hindutva’… these criminals don’t know the difference between cow and buffalo but know enough to kill people with names like Junaid, Akhlaq, Pehlu, Rakbar, Alimuddin,” Asaduddin Owaisi tweeted.
“These criminals have the support of a Hindutva government,” he said.
“Alimuddin’s killers are garlanded at the hands of a Union Minister… the tricolor is laid over the body of Akhlaq’s killer… a mahapanchayat is convened in support of the killers of Asif…” he went on to add.
“Cowardice, violence and murder are an integral part of Godse’s Hindutva thinking. The lynching of Muslims is also the result of this thinking,” he tweeted.
Earlier on Sunday, Mohan Bhagwat said the law should punish those guilty of “mob lynching”, although he immediately added “at times, false cases have been registered”.
“The cow is a holy animal… but those who are indulging in lynching are going against Hindutva. Law should take its own course against them without any partiality,” Bhagwat said.
Mr Bhagwat also claimed “Hindu-Muslim unity is misleading as they’re not different, but one. DNA of all Indians are same, irrespective of religion”, and that Muslims should not get “trapped in a cycle of fear”.
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