Hyderabad, Jan. 23: Attempts to vitiate peace were made at a few places in Telangana during the processions taken out to mark inauguration of Ram temple at Ayodhya on Monday.
The incidents were reported from Sangareddy, Narayanpet and Nalgonda districts.
Ine one of the incidents, a couple of shops and houses of people from minority community were targeted by the miscreants. Timely intervention by the police following demands from Muslim leaders averted the situation from getting out of control. Police tightened the security to prevent any untoward incident.
In the first incident, a shop and two shops were attacked by miscreants in Daultabad in Sangareddy district. Trouble started when the procession was passing through a residential area. Some miscreants barged into a house and assaulted inmates, alleging that a chappal was hurled on the procession route.
A couple and their children were taken to the police station. Local leaders of AIMIM alerted the party leadership in Hyderabad, which then took up the issue with higher authorities.
AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi spoke to Sangareddy Superintendent of Police and demanded action against the troublemakers.
AIMIM MLA Kausar Mohiuddin said the miscreants who had gathered from various places raising offensive slogans set afire a shop and ransacked some other properties of Muslims. He said when an injured person was being shifted in an ambulance, some people on two-wheelers chased the ambulance raising slogans.
Tension also prevailed in Kosagi town of Narayanpet district when a procession gathered outside a mosque and raised provocative slogans. The MLA said he spoke to Narayanpet SP and demanded action against the miscreants. A police picket was posted at the mosque.
He alleged that an atmosphere of fear was created in smaller towns and villages as processions were taken out till late in the night raising slogans.
There was also mild tension in Narketpally in Nalgonda district when a mob gathered outside a mosque and raised slogans when prayers were on. Police intervened to disperse the mob and brought the situation under control.
Majlis Bachao Tehreek (MBT) leader Amjed Ullah Khan alleged that some workers of VHP, Bajrang Dal, RSS and BJP tried to grab an open piece of land belonging to Masjid-e-Sarai Meer and construct a temple.
He claimed that ever since Congress party came to power in Telangana the BJP, RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal in collusion with BRS are trying to polarise the situation and create communal disturbance in Telangana to defame Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy. He urged the Chief Minister to take note of this Narketpally incident and also the communal incident that happened last month in Velpur village of Nizamabad district in which the same anti-social elements tried to create communal tension by constructing a temple on land belonging to a graveyard.
