Jamia Firing: Owaisi challenges Modi to 'identify gunman by his clothes'

Minutes after Rambhakt Gopal, who opened fire at people protesting the citizenship law near Delhi's Jamia Millia University, Hyderabad politician Asaduddin Owaisi challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "identify him by his clothes".

The comment was a reference to a remark by PM Modi in which he targeted those opposing the citizenship law, which critics say discriminates against Muslims, and claimed "you can easily make out who is spreading violence by the clothes they wear".

In a series of sharply-worded tweets the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief also hit out at Union Minister Anurag Thakur, who was handed a 72-hour ban today by the Election Commission this afternoon for making hate speeches while campaigning for next month's Delhi election.

You can read his tweet here ;

. @DelhiPolice What happened to the bravado that you showed in #Jamia last month?

If there’s a prize for being ‘helpless’ bystanders, you’d win it every time. Can you explain why a gunshot victim had to CLIMB over a barricade?

Do your service rules stop you from being HUMANE? pic.twitter.com/LQpYWwEAaL

— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) January 30, 2020