LONDON: Disgrutled MQM Founder seek asylum and big support from Indian PMNarendra Modi.
Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Altaf Hussain has requested Indian PrimeMinister Narendra Modi for help by giving asylum and financial help to himand his companions.
In his first ever public speech after the police relaxed his bailconditions, the MQM leader has turned towards the Indian prime minister andasked him for help in many forms. The MQM leader has been charged with asection of terrorism by the Crown Prosecution Services (CPS) and is due tostand trial in June next year.
His passport remains with the UK police as part of his bail conditions andhe is not allowed to apply for any travel document unless permitted by thecourt. Lawyers are assessing whether Hussain has breached his bailconditions by asking the Indian premier to let him stay in India while heawaits trial of his case.
In a speech watched online by thousands of people, the MQM leader said hewould like to travel to India because his grandfathers are buried there.The MQM founder said in his request to the Indian government: “If India’sPrime Minister Mr.
Modi allows me to come to India and provides me asylum with my colleagues,I am ready to come to India along with my colleagues because my grandfatheris buried there. My grandmother is buried there and thousands of myrelatives are buried there in India. I want to go to India to their graves.”
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Addressing Modi, Altaf Hussain alleged that his assets, house and officeswere taken over in Karachi after August 22, 2017. He asked the Indian primeminister to help him with money if he cannot take the risk of providing himasylum.
Altaf Hussain was speaking soon after India’s superior court announced itsverdict in the Babri Mosque case, maintaining that Muslims do not have aright over the disputed historic site. Hussain said the current governmentof Modi has the “right to establish Hindu raaj (rule)” and if Indianpolitician Asaduddin Owaisi and others did not like India, they shouldmigrate to Pakistan.
In his speech, Altaf Hussain sided with the Indian government’s position onthe Babri Mosque issue.
