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 Jama mosque imam lashed out at India's major parties during Friday prayers |
NEW DELHI
Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari of New Delhi's Jama mosque said Muslims in India were "victims of injustice" and have been "tortured and systematically sidelined by all political parties."
He accused the Hindu-majority that make up the bulk of India's main parties of being either overtly sectarian or otherwise trying to cynically woo the Muslim vote with "false promises."
"Look around and see the situation: some parties have an anti-Muslim agenda, some are trying to show sympathy towards us, but they will never be of any good to us," he said, adding that the Muslim community has lost all faith in the existing political parties.
