Another AAP leader Kumar Vishwas in trouble, hauled by Minorities Commission for 'hurting religious sentiments'
India Today Online New Delhi, November 28, 2013 | UPDATED 08:10 IST
Demanding action against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas for allegedly hurting religious feelings, National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has written to Election Commission and Delhi Police seeking their intervention in the matter.
Acting on a complaint filed by a Delhi-based lawyer Shehzad Poonawalla, NCM member Farida Abdulla Khan has asked EC to take action against Vishwas.
Moreover, NCM chairperson Wajahat Habibullah has called upon police to "consider appropriate action under the law".
The lawyer, who has sent a video clipping to NCM backing his charges, has alleged that Vishwas had made statements ridiculing Shia Muslim traditions.
File photo: (L) Kumar Vishwas, Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodiya
In her letter to EC, Khan said, "The remarks ridicule the time-honoured tradition observed during Muharram by Muslims, especially Shias. "We have seen the video sent to us and find the remarks extremely offensive and communal and the tone and the tenor derogatory and inappropriate," she told EC.
These are the letters the NCW has sent to the EC.
However, reacting to Poonawalla's charges, the AAP leader promptly shot another video clarifying his speech and claiming that the video clipping supplied by the lawyer is doctored.
Watch Vishwas' clarification:
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