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"The Aam Aadmi Party also demands that the Election Commission should also act against Shiv Sena under the provisions of the Representation of the People Act and de-recognise Shiv Sena as a political party," it said.
Updated : Apr 13, 2015, 12:06 PM IST
Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday demanded slapping of a criminal case against Shiv Sena and its mouthpiece editor Sanjay Raut over the party's suggestion that voting rights of Muslims be scrapped.
Alleging that the article was aimed at seeking "cheap publicity" and with the objective of spreading "hatred" between communities, the party in a statement demanded "immediate arrest of Sanjay Raut after registration of a criminal case against him and the Shiv Sena" by the BJP-led Maharashtra government. The party also sought de-recognition of Shiv Sena as a political party.
"The Aam Aadmi Party also demands that the Election Commission should also act against Shiv Sena under the provisions of the Representation of the People Act and de-recognise Shiv Sena as a political party," it said.
AAP also attacked the BJP saying that the saffron party's leaders and MPs have also been making statements to "incite violence and divide society on communal lines".
Meanhile, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has condemned the Shiv Sena’s demand that voting rights of Muslims should be revoked as the community has often been used to play vote bank politics and said that snatching away the fundamental right is a threat to the nation’s democracy.
NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik alleged that the Shiv Sena wants to end democracy and bring in the rule of German dictator Adolf Hitler.
“To snatch away the right of voting from the Muslims is a threat to the democracy. If voting rights of the special sections are snatched away, it only indicates that they want to end the democracy and bring in the Hitler rule and the people will not accept it,” he told the media.
Another NCP leader Tariq Anwar echoing similar sentiments also lashed out at the Shiv Sena.
“Shiv Sena leaders have lost their thinking. The nation works on the principles of the Constitution. Will it work according to them (Shiv Sena)?” he asked.