Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati attacked both the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress on Thursday, alleging that the two were using power to suppress innocent Muslims.
She said the acts of the two parties were highly objectionable and charged that the BJP and Congress were indulging in caste and religion-based politics to terrorise one community.
“The BJP government in Uttar Pradesh and the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh are glaring examples of state terror. People should decide the difference between the Congress and BJP governments,” Mayawati tweeted on Thursday.
The BSP chief’s strong statement came after 14 Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) students were booked for sedition on Tuesday night while the MP government invoked National Security Act (NSA) against Muslims for cow slaughtering earlier this month.
In Aligarh, 14 students, including AMU student’s union president, were booked for sedition after some students and a TV channel crew got into a spat over reports of a visit by All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) lawmaker Asaduddin Owaisi on the campus two days back.
Sources said that all programmes in AMU on Thursday were cancelled to avert any untoward incident while the district administration also blocked internet services in the district.
In Khandwa (MP), authorities slapped NSA and jailed three Muslim men for killing a cow earlier this month.
