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The Hindu
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Staff Reporter

Owaisi demands BJP national spokesperson be arrested immediately

A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has suspended its spokesperson Nupur Sharma, president of All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Asaduddin Owaisi has demanded the suspended party national spokesperson be arrested immediately.

Addressing a press conference held in Hyderabad on Monday, Hyderabad Member of Parliament Mr. Asaduddin has asked why it took 10-days to take the action.

Explaining the chronology, Mr. Owaisi said that BJP took action when Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu was informed, during his flight just before reaching Qatar, that a banquet in his honour was cancelled.

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