Owaisi slaps legal notice to Ex-BJP MLA and media portal over claim of nexus with BJP

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net,

Hyderabad: All India Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) today sent a legal notice to former BJP MLA Yatin Oza and a Noida-based news portal ‘Janata ka Reporter’ for levelling allegations of nexus between MIM and the BJP.

In a three-page legal notice that is made available by MIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on his Twitter handle, MIM has given seven days time to Rifath Javed, CEO of the news portal, to tender an unconditional apology or face criminal and civil proceedings including claim of damages conservatively estimated at Rs 50 Crore.

Former BJP MLA Yatin Oza, who is planning to join AAP, on Monday claimed in a letter written to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal that BJP President Amit Shah and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi had “struck a deal” at a meeting ahead of Bihar Assembly polls last year to “polarise” votes in the Muslim-dominated northern belt.

He also claimed that it was decided in the meeting that “Owaisi will spew poisonous communal speech, the script of which shall be written by Amit Shah.”

BJP and MIM both rejected this claim of Oza and Owaisi had threatened of sending legal notice to Oza and media houses which carried the news.

Strongly denying meeting of any MIM leader with Amit Shah, the legal notice stated: “Hence the letter and report published by you is clearly a deliberate attempt to defame our client in an unlawful and incorrect manner”.

The letter and the report was false and misleading with the sole intention to harm the reputation of our client, senior High Court advocate Ashok Reddy said in the notice. The report and the letter had caused tremendous distress and anxiety to the party, its members and the leaders, it added.

“The said news item was published with malicious intention of defaming our client politically and divide its vote bank keeping in view of the upcoming Gujrat elections and in a bid to tarnish our clients image,” the notice said.