Why were Owaisi, Salman singled out over Yakub Memon issue?

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New Delhi, 26 July 2015: Politician Asaduddin Owaisi and actor Salman Khan are not the only persons in the 125 crore population of the country who supported mercy plea of death convict Yakub Memon without questioning the verdict of the Supreme Court. Indeed, there is no question of questioning the verdict of the apex court. In fact, thousands of people including politicians, former judges, journalists and rights activists have raised similar voice in the last two weeks. But why were Owaisi and Salman singled out and attacked by those who want Memon to be hanged the earliest?

Why did almost all major TV channels of the country try to shout Owaisi down in live news debates last week? Why did workers of BJP mob the house of Salman in Mumbai today till he retracted his last night tweets over Yakub Memon? Owaisi had last week also questioned as to why haven’t the killers of Rajiv Gandhi and Beant Singh been hanged.

There have been no protests against those judges and scholars who pointed out legal weaknesses in the verdict against Memon, nor one against those who oppose his hanging as they oppose capital punishment.

Even today, more than one hundred jurists, politicians and activists have filed a fresh mercy petition with President of India. The petitioners include:Justice Panachand Jain (Retd), Justice H.S. Bedi (Retd), Justice P. B. Sawant (Retd), Justice H. Suresh (Retd), Justice K. P. Siva Subramaniam (Retd), Justice S. N. Bhargava (Retd), Justice K Chandru (Retd), Justice Nagmohan Das (Retd), Shatrughan Sinha MP, Mani Shankar Aiyer, MP, Ram Jethmalani, MP, Sitaram Yechury, MP, G.S, CPI(M) D. Raja, MP, CPI, K.T.S Tulsi, MP, H.K. Dua, MP, T. Siva, MP, Prakash Karat, CPI(M), Member, Polit Bureau, Dipankar Bhattacharya, General Secretary, CPI(ML)-Liberation, Brinda Karat, CPI(M), Member, Polit Bureau; activists and filmmakers like Mahesh Bhatt and Tushar Gandhi.

Will any of them be attacked and coerced by media or mob the way Owaisi and Salman were?

Today, former judge of Supreme Court Markandey Katju said Yakub Memon should not be hanged and he went ahead saying he believes “there has been gross travesty of justice in the case of Yakub Memon.”

Will Katju’s house also be mobbed by saffron workers?

If not, then why were Owaisi and Salman?

Due to their religion?

Debate is open.

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