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In comments that could stoke a controversy,Congress leader Rashid Alvi Thursday said communal riots in Muzaffarnagar have left Gujarat far behind. Alvi,who was detained by the UP police after he visited a camp in Loni,riot-hit area of Muzaffarnagar,said he was forcibly taken to a police station and after an hours detention taken to the UP-Delhi border and left there.
I have visited Gujarat also. But,Muzaffarnagar has left Gujarat behind, he said,pointing towards the problems of Muslims in the area. Alvi claimed that tales of people lodged in various relief camps in UP point to their big sufferings. Alvi,a former Rajya Sabha MP of Congress from Andhra Pradesh,hails from Uttar Pradesh and is a known detractor of the Samajwadi Party.
He was snubbed by the party in June 2012 after he had dubbed Mulayam Singh Yadav as the biggest agent of BJP. At the time Alvi was the spokesperson of the Congress,a post which he had to forego some months back in the AICC reshuffle.
Last week also,Alvi had launched a scathing attack on the SP chief asking him to disclose what had transpired in his meeting with VHP chief Ashok Singhal last month,a few days before the Hindutva group attempted to take out its 84-kosi parikarma yatra which was banned by the Akhilesh government. Alvi had also accused Yadav of strengthening BJPs hands.
Mulayam Singh Yadav is strengthening the hands of BJP. The communal riots that have happened in western UP have now proved right what I said one year back. Mulayam Singh and BJP are together and this is amply proved by the incidents that have taken place now, Alvi had said.
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