“Religious processions, including those on Ram Navami, were also taken out in the past, but back then you would have never seen youth brandishing swords or stopping outside mosques for 15-20 minutes to deliberately raise provocative slogans.
Elaborating on the issue, he said that “there was a determined agenda to take these actions”.
In the memorandum, Ahmed had also raised the issue of the Madhya Pradesh government resorting to the demolition of houses and shops belonging to minorities in Khargone.
So I told the Commission that it was important to stop these actions since an attempt is being made to instil a sense of fear in the minorities,” he said.
Ahmed told The Wire that as a lawyer he knows fully well that “they do not have any authority to demolish houses in this manner.
Ahmed rued that many of the BJP-ruled states were carrying their own “short trial” without waiting to hear from the courts to resort to demolition.