TRS "Over-Reacting" To Diggy's Comments: Congress

Telangana Congress on Wednesday strongly condemned the "over-reaction" of the TRS leaders to some tweets of AICC General Secretary Digvijaya Singh.

"TRS leaders are targeting Digivijaya Singh only to gain some media attention. They did not even understand the graveness of the issue raised by Singh in his tweets. He clearly expressed concern over some officials using dubious and illegal means to trap Muslim youth and implicate them in fake cases. Is it wrong to expose an action which could hurt the innocent Muslim youth?" asked Greater Hyderabad Congress Committee (GHCC) Minorities Department Chairman Shaik Abdullah Sohail.

Abdullah Sohail said Singh did not target the Telangana police as a whole in his tweets, but only pointed a finger towards a few officials who were illegally trying to lure some Muslim youth to join the ISIS.

"It is the duty of the police to catch criminals. But it is wrong to first incite someone to commit a crime and then catch them to win rewards and applauds. The Congress party never supports anti-national activities or any other actions that hurt the interests of our nation. Inciting the Muslim youth to join anti-national activities by creating a fake website also amounts to treason, and Digvijaya Singh pointed that some officials were resorting to such means to trap innocent Muslim youth," he said.

The Congress leader ridiculed the protests organised by some TRS leaders by burning the effigy of Singh. He said most of the TRS workers who took part in the protest had no understanding of the issue and its seriousness. If Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao's professed love for the Muslims was really true, he should order an independent probe into the allegations levelled by Singh, and else must apologise to the Muslims of Telangana for his failure to keep a tab on some police officials who misused their position to tarnish the image of the entire community, he said.

"Why is the Chief Minister reluctant to order an enquiry into the allegations? Is he trying to cover up something under the garb of protests by his party workers?" he asked.

Abdullah Sohail pointed out that it was during the TRS regime that five undertrial Muslim youth were killed in an alleged fake encounter at Alair. Even after more than two years, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) had not submitted its report. Similarly, the mystery behind the brutal murder of Shaik Mustafa, the 11-year-old boy who was killed near Mehdipatnam, was yet to be resolved even after three years.

He also said that the TRS government had taken no action against the police personnel who had killed three and injured other innocent residents of Kishanbagh three years ago.

"Contrary to the claims of KCR being the "most secular", he has patronised several officials who were notorious for their anti-Muslim stands," he said.

"On the one hand KCR has promised 12% Muslim reservation. On the other, he has appointed as Advocate General Ramakrishna Reddy, who fought against the 4% reservations for Muslim in the High Court. Similarly, a senior IPS officer, who was accused of providing logistical support in the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin, has been placed in a very high position in the state Secretariat," he said, and asked the TRS leaders to stop enacting their "protest dramas" against the Congress leaders.