A macabre demand to behead Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been made by one of the speakers of a meeting held by an Islamic extremist organisation on Sunday challenging the Government of India for abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution and criminalising the Triple Talaq which was in vogue among the Muslim community.
The video recording of the meeting, organised by Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam that went viral all over the State, has a speaker openly declaring that he would behead Modi and kill Union Home Minister Amit Shah for coming up with legislation on Triple Talaq.
The person also declared that the Parliament needs to be attacked for enacting such laws. He further added that he was not afraid of anything and asked the Intelligence of the State Police to take note of the same and repeated his threat that the Prime Minister of the country would be assassinated.
The Tamil Nadu BJP has taken strong note of the incident while the DMK, the major Opposition party, chose to remain silent over the issue. Narayanan Thirupathy, BJP spokesman, filed a complaint with the Chennai Police on Sunday for which a receipt has been issued by the police.
“This is a seditious speech as he threatens that he would not only kill the democratically elected Prime Minister and Home Minister of the country and behead them but also would attack the Parliament. This is a criminal offence under Section 124A of the IPC .
The speaker also invokes religion thereby creating enmity between different groups on the ground of religion which is an act prejudicial to the maintenance of harmony,” said Narayanan. He pointed out that he would demand slapping charges against the speaker under sections 153A, Sections 503, 504 and 505(1) (b) (C), read with Sections 506of the IPC.
Elsewhere in the State, the DMK, Lefts and Islamic outfits are busy organising meetings against the abrogation of the article 370 of the Constitution and the legislation against the Triple Talaq. Though the DMK and the Congress were vociferous in their attacks against Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswamy for describing the former union finance minister P Chidambaram as a burden on the earth, they chose to look the other way when the TMMK meeting called for assassinating the Prime Minister and the Home Minister, said a senior intelligence official. He said the department was looking into the details of the speech.
Tamil Nadu Police and National Investigating Agency have taken into custody Islamic youths who were reportedly planning to subvert law and order in South India.
Sunday saw TMMK and MMK, two organisations known for their extremist stands, holding a rally in Chennai where MH Jawahirullah, president of MMK accusing the Centre for selectively targeting innocent Islamic youth under the pretext of questioning them over their links with various “freedom fighters”. He compared the recently amended UAPA Bill to that of the Rowlatt Act which culminated in the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre of the 1919.