New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Shazia Ilmi has landed into a controversy due to her remark of “Muslims ought to be communal this time”.
Ilmi had contested the Lok Sabha polls from Ghaziabad earlier in the month, had been seen saying in the video that “Muslims are very secular. Muslims ought to be more communal. (They) do not vote for their own. Arvind Kejriwal is your own. I say, it is enough of secularism.”
Meanwhile AAP had distanced itself from her remark and said she should not have said it.
She said, “Here helping the Congress win, there someone else. Please do not be so secular. Muslims are secular. They will continue to vote for others. Other parties don’t do such things?”
It is a short 1.19 minute video clip, apparently a sting operation, where Ilmi is seen talking to Muslims. The video, believed to be shot in Mumbai, where she had gone for campaigning for AAP’s South Mumbai candidate Mira Sanyal, shows Ilmi talking with her head covered with a dupatta. Mumbai goes to polls on April 24.
Ilmi further said in video “agree, this is controversial, but this is important” in reaction to a person sitting next to her who said “we are afraid, we have to vote”.
The clip ends with Ilmi saying, “Kaam badal dijiye lado aur jito”.
Bureau Report
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