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Shiv Sena condemns US over Azam Khan detention
Tuesday April 30, 2013 11:22:24 AM,
IANS
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Mumbai: The Shiv
Sena Tuesday came out in support of Samajwadi Party (SP) leader
and Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan who was last week detained at
Boston airport while on his way to deliver a lecture at Harvard
University.
Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray said the US must clarify
whether the treatment meted out to Azam Khan was because of his
surname or because he was an Indian.
In a sharp editorial in the party mouthpiece Dopaharka Saamna
Tuesday, Thackeray said that Azam Khan was virtually placed under
arrest and treated as if he was a terrorist carrying 50 kg of RDX
with plans to blow up White House.
"In the past, India's former home minister L.K. Advani and former
defence minister George Fernandes, besides Bollywood actor Shah
Rukh Khan and commoners have undergone such humiliation at the
hands of US agencies which continue to insult India in the name of
its internal security," Thackeray said.
Wondering what would be the reaction if similar treatment were
meted out to the US or European officials visiting India,
Thackeray demanded that the US treat Indians with dignity and
respect they deserve.
Thackeray pointed out that Azam Khan was invited to Boston to
deliver a lecture on how he successfully conducted the Maha Kumbh
Mela in Uttar Pradesh.
Barring the single incident of stampede, the Kumbh Mela -
considered one of the largest religious congregations on earth -
passed off peacefully with Azam Khan as the chief of the
organising committee.
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