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Samajwadi Party, Muslim leaders slam Azam Khan's frisking in US
Friday April 26, 2013 05:51:47 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: The ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) and Muslim groups in Uttar Pradesh Friday
slammed reports of humiliation and extended frisking of party
leader and minister Mohammad Azam Khan at Logan Airport in Boston,
US.
In a statement issued by his personal assistant Muktinath Jha late
Thursday, state Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs
Minister Azam Khan alleged that homeland security officials
humiliated him on the pretext of frisking him and that he was
targeted because he is a Muslim.
SP leader and Rajya Sabha member Naresh Agarwal said the matter
was serious and the union government should immediately intervene
and seek an apology from the US administration.
"The foreign minister should immediately ask authorities behind
such a disgraceful act to a respected politician to
unconditionally apologise," he said, adding that the US will have
to make changes in its mindset while dealing with such situations.
"When people from the US come to India, we treat them with dignity
and respect and in exchange we get what we are now seeing,"
Agarwal said and recalled how former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
and Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan were also treated in a similar
way at airports in the US.
Ram Asrey Kushwaha, national general secretary of the SP, also
slammed the US Homeland Security for "subjecting the minister to
such humiliation".
"Azam saheb had gone to the US on an invitation from Harvard
Business School. This should have been respected by security
agencies and they should have realized that the minister was being
accompanied by the chief minister of the most populous state of
India," Kushwaha said.
Cleric Maulana Khalid Rashid Firangi Mahal said that the US,
"which claimed to be the champion of civil behaviour, had shown
its true colours".
"It is unfortunate that a senior minister was subjected to such
behaviour, specially since he is a Muslim, a religion so widely
followed in the world," he said.
Anwar-ul-Haq, a teacher at a madarsa, said that the government's
response was "weak and meek" and that the protest should be loud.
"Though we expect nothing better from the weak government at the
centre, I am hopeful that something concrete will be done to stop
repetitions of such instances in the US," he said.
Azam Khan has said he will boycott all events in the US after the
incident, but added that he would deliver his lecture at the
Harvard Business School Friday.
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