“Mistake Is His Identify”: Congress Compares Motion Towards Professor, Minister
New Delhi:
Opposition events Congress and Samajwadi Occasion have slammed the ruling BJP over the arrest of an Ashoka College professor for a social media publish on Operation Sindoor and questioned why Madhya Pradesh minister Vijay Shah, whose remarks on Colonel Sofiya Qureshi sparked a row, had not been arrested but.
In an obvious swipe on the ruling BJP, Samajwadi Occasion chief Akhilesh Yadav has put out a social media publish, ostensibly drawing a parallel between the swift police motion towards the professor and the sluggish probe towards the Madhya Pradesh minister.
“Hukmarano ki badzubani par bhi azadi, aur kisi ke sach kehne par bhi giraftari,” the Kannauj MP stated in a publish on X. The strains roughly translate to: “These in energy are free even after talking sick of others and those that spoke the reality have been arrested.”
Ali Khan Mahmudabad, affiliate professor of political science at Ashoka College, was arrested yesterday after two FIRs had been registered towards him for a social media publish on Operation Sindoor, India’s counterstrike to avenge the Pahalgam terror assault. The fees embody endangering India’s sovereignty and integrity, statements conducing to public mischief, deliberate actions geared toward insulting the modesty of a girl and selling enmity between completely different teams on grounds of faith.
Renu Bhatia, chairperson of Haryana State Fee for Girls, filed one of many complaints towards Mr Khan. Referring to the federal government selecting Colonel Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomina Singh for the Operation Sindoor briefings, the professor had stated he was pleased to see right-wing commentators applauding the Colonel. “… however maybe they may additionally equally loudly demand that the victims of mob lynchings, arbitrary bulldozing and others who’re victims of the BJP’s hate mongering be protected as Indian residents. The optics of two ladies troopers presenting their findings is essential however optics should translate to actuality on the bottom in any other case it is simply hypocrisy”.
The ladies fee stated a evaluate of Mr Khan’s remarks raises considerations in regards to the “disparagement of ladies in uniform, together with Col Qureshi and Wing Commander Singh, and undermining their position as skilled officers within the Indian Armed Forces”.
The professor earlier stated the ladies’s panel “misunderstood” his remarks. “…I’m shocked that the Girls’s Fee, whereas overreaching its jurisdiction, has misinterpret and misunderstood my posts to such an extent that they’ve inverted their which means,” he stated on X.
Akhilesh Yadav has in contrast the swift police motion towards Mr Khan with the comparatively slower progress within the case towards Madhya Pradesh minister Vijay Shah, additionally in hassle for his remarks towards Colonel Qureshi. Whereas addressing a public occasion, Mr Shah referred to the Pahalgam terror assault that left 26 innocents lifeless. “They undressed Hindus and killed them, and Modi ji despatched their sister to return the favour. We could not undress them, so we despatched a daughter from their group… You widowed sisters of our group, so a sister of your group will strip you bare,” the Tribal Affairs minister stated.
The remarks drew a wave of criticism. The Madhya Pradesh Excessive Courtroom took word of the remarks and ordered the registration of an FIR. The court docket stated the “sister of terrorists” comment may have an effect on non secular concord and added that such remarks might create a notion that, no matter a person’s service to the nation, they might face derogatory remedy solely as a result of their religion.
The matter has now reached the Supreme Courtroom. In response to an IANS report, regardless of the court docket’s strict order, police are but to document Mr Shah’s assertion or determine key witnesses.
Important opposition Congress has criticised Mr Khan’s arrest and stated “that is state of New India underneath the Modi authorities”.
Ali Khan Mahmudabad has been arrested for a considerate Fb publish. That is the state of New India underneath the Modi authorities.
A historian and tutorial is jailed not for inciting violence however for advocating towards it. His crime? Daring to talk fact to energy, exposing the… pic.twitter.com/wLiVNFujTE
— Pawan Khera 🇮🇳 (@Pawankhera) Could 18, 2025
“A historian and tutorial is jailed not for inciting violence however for advocating towards 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 brazenly demeaning the armed forces. No FIRs. No arrests. That is the double normal of Modi’s governance,” Congress chief Pawan Khera has stated.
“A authorities that fears questions, fears its personal individuals. When writers, professors and critics are branded enemies, the actual enemy is democracy itself,” he added. “His solely mistake is that he wrote this publish. And his different mistake is his title,” Mr Khera stated.
