By Mohd Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net,
Lucknow: Protesting against the US led NATO intervention in Libya hundreds of Shia Muslims joined protest march led by Shia cleric and Imam-e-Juma, Asafi Masjid, Lucknow, Maulana Kalbe Jawwad in New Delhi on Sunday. The protest march started from Rajghat and culminated in a meeting at Jantar Mantar.
As per their announced programme, a large number of protestors reached Rajghat where they started a march denouncing US intervention in Libya and Saudi Arabia government’s role in Bahrain.
Maulana Jawwad who led the protest stated that the Saudi government had launched attack on the innocent Muslims in Bahrain. “They are demolishing mosques and killing civilians. Those who are killed are innocent Muslims and are being targeted by the Saudi army,” he said.
Jawwad also decried the US led NATO intervention in Libya which has claimed hundreds of lives. “A democratic government is the need of hour, let the people decide and the government should also understand the writing on the wall that the popular uprising cannot be suppressed for long,” he said. The protestors later reached Jantar Mantar where they held meeting raising slogans denouncing US and Saudi Arabia government.
