Outrage against Wasim Rizvi over Quran case: Statue burnt, demonstration in Lucknow today

New delhi date. Sunday 14 March 2021

Outrage against Wasim Rizvi has now spread from the court to the streets in Lucknow, the capital of UP. Wasim Rizvi, the former chairman of the Shia Waqf Board, has knocked on the court's door to remove 26 verses from the Quran.

Against which the Muslim organization has come up against. Several Muslim organizations took to the streets to protest against the petition. There will also be a demonstration in Lucknow on Sunday. Maulana Kalbe Jawad will be involved in today's rally. The rally will start from Rumi Gate in Hussainabad.

Protests erupted on Saturday in connection with a controversial petition filed by Wasim Rizvi. Protesters also set fire to a statue of Wasim Rizvi. People also chanted slogans during this. There was a demonstration against Wasim Rizvi in ​​Bazar Khala Thana area. The protest was attended by a large number of people from the Shia community outside the royal palace. Protesters also read the Koran outside Rizvi's home.

Wasim Rizvi, chairman of the Indian Humanity Forum, recited the Quran in protest outside his home in the Kashmiri mohalla. Meanwhile, there was tight security outside Wasim Rizvi's house. A heavy police force was deployed for security outside Rizvi's house. Wasim Rizvi, former chairman of the Shia Waqf Board, has filed a petition in the court seeking removal of 26 verses from the Quran.

Muslim clerics have opened a front against Rizvi after he filed a petition to remove a verse from the Quran. Maulana Kalbe Jawad Naqvi had demanded Rizvi's arrest saying he was an enemy of Islam. Javade also alleged that Rizvi had done so to appease anti-Muslim extremist forces.