“‘Be grateful to Muslims, or else Pakistan would have extended not just to Lahore but to Lucknow’: Ex-MP Mohammad Adeeb’s comment sparks a row”, Opindia, November 12, 2024:
“Many controversies have arisen as a result of the comments uttered during the Muslim conference protesting the Waqf Amendment Bill that was held at Talkatora Stadium in the national capital, Delhi. The government was even asked to express gratitude to the Muslim community at the gathering of Muslim scholars and others from different parts of the nation, which included the head and other officials of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board.
According to former Rajya Sabha MP Mohammad Adeeb, it was a favour by the Muslim community that the border of Pakistan only limited to Lahore otherwise it would have been expanded as far as Lucknow. He also referred to the bill as the greatest assault on Waqf.
Mohammad Adeeb, referring to having completed nearly eighty years of his life and moving around in political circles for more than fifty years, claimed, “Today we are living like criminals in our area. Now, we have even become traitors. We have seen such people who were with us and then left us to fate to build their lives in politics. We were blamed for those who went to Pakistan……”
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