New Delhi: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, on Saturday, lashed out at Union Home Minister Amit Shah for the communal violence that broke out in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri area recently.
"Few days back, Delhi was burning due to communal tensions. The state of Delhi is controlled by (chief minister) Arvind Kejriwal, but its police come under the Union Home Ministry handled by Amit Shah. Shah failed to protect the city from communal riots," he said, quoted by news agency PTI.
"If anything happens in Delhi, the message goes out to the world. The world would imagine that there is unrest in Delhi. You have power, but you can not handle Delhi," he further said.
He also cornered the BJP-led central government saying that the film ‘The Kashmir Files’ was shown to “instigate religious hatred,” reported news agency ANI.
Speaking at an NCP rally in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur, Pawar said, “A film named Kashmir Files was shown to everyone to instigate religious hatred.”
Pawar also hit out at the BJP government in Karnataka over riots in Hooghly.
"The names of shops and their owners from minority communities were mentioned on a hoarding. It was also written on it that people should not buy things from such shops. This is a common picture in the states where the BJP is in power," the NCP chief said.
The former Union minister also spoke about the arrests of NCP’s Nawab Malik and Anil Deshmukh saying that they have been “falsely framed” adding that “pressure is being created by the Enforcement Directorate, CBI and other agencies.
(With inputs from ANI and PTI)