Congress celebration on has slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) authorities on the centre over the arrest of Ashoka College college Ali Khan Mahmubabad over his Fb posts about Operation Sindoor.
Ali, who teaches Political Science at Haryana-based Ashoka College, was arrested by Haryana police from his Delhi residence on 18 Might and despatched to a two-day remand primarily based on a criticism filed by Yogesh Jatheri,the overall secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) Yuva Morcha in Haryana. The criticism was filed on 17 Might.
Congress chief Pawan Khera stated in a submit on X that Ali being arrested for a ‘considerate’ submit talking in opposition to violence abd the BJP ministers going through no motion for “demeaning” the armed forces brings to the fore the Narendra Modi authorities’s ‘double requirements’.
“His solely mistake is that he wrote this submit. His different mistake is his title,” Khera stated. “That is the state of New India beneath the Modi authorities”.
Ali, 42, was arrested beneath sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita(BNS) that cope with desition and insulting spiritual beliefs, household sources stated. One of many fees in opposition to him is Part 152 of the BNS, which changed the sedition regulation within the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and criminalises acts that endanger the sovereignty, unity, and integrity of India.
Kapil Balyan, one in all Ali’s attorneys, advised information company PTI that he was produced earlier than a court docket on Sunday night and remanded in police custody for 2 days in a case.
In a submit on X, Khera stated Mahmudabad has been arrested for a “considerate” Fb submit. “A historian and tutorial is jailed not for inciting violence however for advocating in opposition to it. His crime? Daring to talk fact to energy, exposing the BJP’s cynical communal narrative, and calling out the hypocrisy of chest-thumping nationalism.”
“In the meantime, the BJP minister and their deputy CM face no motion after overtly demeaning the armed forces. No FIRs. No arrests. That is the double commonplace of Modi’s governance,” he stated.
Khera was referring to the alleged objectionable feedback made by Madhya Pradesh minister Vijay Shah and the state deputy chief minister Jagdish Devda.
The Congress had claimed that Devda had stated all the Indian Military and courageous troopers had been bowing on the toes of Modi. Alternatively, Shah needed to apologise after his remarks linking the faith of terrorists behind the Pahalham strike with that of Col Sofiya Qureshi triggered an outrage.
“This isn’t about one man. It’s concerning the gradual suffocation of freedom of speech, the criminalisation of dissent, and the usage of state equipment to silence intellectuals who problem the BJP’s manufactured rage,” Khera stated including that the present dispensation fears questions, its personal folks.
Who’s Ali Khan Mahmubabad?
When writers, professors and critics are branded enemies, the true enemy is democracy itself, he asserted and added, “We stand for an India that values debate and democracy, not dictates.”
“Mahmudabad, by the way in which, is the grandson of Padma Bhushan late Jagat S Mehta, who served as India’s International Secretary from 1976-79, when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Exterior Affairs Minister. His solely mistake is that he wrote this submit. And his different mistake is his title,” Khera stated within the X submit accompanied by a screenshot of one in all Ali’s submit that prompted the arrest.
Ali is the son of Mohammad Amir Mohammad Khan, popularly identified asRaja Sahab Mahmudabad, who spent about forty in a authorized battle to reclaim his ancestral property seized by the federal government beneath theEnemy Properties Act.Raja Saheb handed away in October 2023.
Ali’s father was the one son of Mohammad Amir Ahmad Khan, the final ruling Raja of Mahmudabad and long-time treasurer and main financier of the Muslim League earlier than partition of India.
Ali’s mom, Rani Vijay is the daughter of Padma Bhushan Jagat Singh Mehta, who served as India’s International Secretary from 1976-79, when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Exterior Affairs Minister.
Ali was arrested days after the Haryana girls’s rights panel despatched a discover to him questioning his remarks regardless that Mahmudabad had maintained that they had been “misunderstood” and asserted that he had exercised his basic proper to freedom of speech.
What did Ali Mahmudabad say?
In one of many posts, Mahmudabad stated that right-wing folks applauding Col Sofiya Qureshi ought to demand safety for victims of mob lynchings and “arbitrary” bulldozing of properties.
The affiliate professor described the media briefings by Col Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh as “optics”. “However optics should translate to actuality on the bottom, in any other case it is simply hypocrisy,” he had stated.
Wing Commander Singh had briefed the media alongside International Secretary Vikram Misri and Col Qureshi on Operation Sindoor.
His solely mistake is that he wrote this submit. His different mistake is his title.
Indian armed forces hit terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir within the early hours of Might 7 beneath Operation Sindoor in retaliation in opposition to the April 22 Pahalgam terror assault.
