Hyderabad parliamentarian Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said that the violence witnessed in some States on Ram Navami was “State-complicit violence” and described the demolition of houses of a community in Madhya Pradesh as grave violation of the Geneva Conventions.
Mr Owaisi was speaking to the media at the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) headquarters in Darussalaam, where he stated that the areas through which the procession passed saw violence and respective State governments had failed to contain it.
“What happened in Karauli in Rajasthan, in Madhya Pradesh, Gujurat — Anand, Himmat Nagar, Khambat — what happened in Karnataka and Goa; whatever has happened is because of the compliance of the State governments there. State government-complicit violence is happening,” Mr Owaisi said.
