BJP leader Kapil Mishra has demanded ouster of Zafarul-Islam Khan from the post of chairman of Delhi Commission for Minorities for his controversial statements on Hindutva and the country.
Mishra said: “Khan is a supporter of terrorist Zakir Naik and has threatened the Hindus. We demand his ouster from the post.” Khan had threatened Hindus of complaining to “Arab countries and the Muslim world” about the “hate campaigns and lynchings and riots in India”, saying “bigots will face an avalanche”.
A vocal supporter of Tablighi Jamaat, in the last several days he had made several communal statements. He termed quarantining Tablighi Jamaat workers as “illegal detention”. Tablighi Jamaat members have drawn flak for the alleged spread of coronavirus to different parts of the country after the religious sect organised a congregation in Delhi’s Nizamuddin area last month.
On Monday, Khan wrote in his social media posts: “Tablighi inmates and many others have completed 28 days in corona isolation, rather detention centre, which is twice the mandatory 14 days quarantine period for corona suspects as per US and WHO guidelines. Keeping people in isolation, who tested negative and spent twice the mandatory period in corona isolation centres, is tantamount to illegal detention.”
Punya Salial Srivastava, Joint Secretary at the Union Home Ministry had said earlier, “At this stage, there is no question of deportation. We are taking legal action against foreign Tablighi Jamaat workers under the Foreigners Act and Disaster Management Act, 2005. As and when the process of deportation is initiated, standard health protocols will be followed.”
