Senior Congress leader Ajay Maken on Thursday said a terrorist organisation has no right to make comments on the internal affairs of India, after Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri lauded a girl in Mandya who shouted “Allahu Akbar” at a saffron shawl-clad group of boys who heckled her near her college with “Jai Sri Ram” slogans.
“It’s a banned terrorist organisation. It has no business to comment on the internal affairs of our country. In most unequivocal terms, we the Congress condemn the statement of Al-Qaeda,” he said.
He was speaking at a press conference at the party office here. Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a video, spoke about the hijab row in Karnataka earlier this year, calling Muskaan Khan, the student from Mandya, “India’s noble lady” and read a poem in her praise. The terrorist leader urged Indian Muslims to react to the “oppression.”
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