BJP insulting martyrs like Karkare, says Asaduddin Owaisi

Hyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday alleged that the BJP is insulting martyrs like police officer Hemant Karkare who died fighting terrorists during the Mumbai 26/11 attack. Reacting strongly to Malegaon blast accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur’s remark that former Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare had treated her badly and died because of her “curse”, Owaisi, in a tweet, said: “Hemant Karkare died fighting people not very different from yourself. “He didn’t die because a terror accused ‘felt bad’ & ‘cursed’ him. The man died fighting to protect our rights to vote & elect a government How dare BJP insult our martyrs like this?”

Thakur, the prime accused in 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case, alleged that Karkare falsely implicated her in the case. Karkare was heading the probe into the blast that killed six people and injured over 100. The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had arrested Thakur and others belonging to a Hindu extremist group on October 24, 2008. A little over a month later, Karkare was killed while fighting terrorists who had attacked Mumbai. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded her from Bhopal Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh against Congress party’s senior leader Digvijaya Singh. Owaisi earlier slammed BJP for Sadhvi describing the election as ‘dharamyuddha’ (religious war). (IANS)

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