The CPI(M) Delhi state committee, in a statement issued on October 10, has strongly condemned the West Delhi BJP MP Parvesh Verma’s act of calling for ‘total boycott’ of the Muslim community at a meeting organised by the VHP on October 9. He openly exhorted the audience not to buy anything from Muslims and not to pay them wages. Adding further fuel to the fire, the VHP joint secretary Surendra Jain accused one community (read Muslims) of trying to turn Delhi into a mini Pakistan. These statements are a brazen attempt at inciting communal hatred and promoting enmity against the Muslim community.

This is not the first time that Parvesh Verma has indulged in such incendiary speeches aimed at disturbing the communal amity in Delhi. His speeches along with Kapil Mishra before and after the Delhi assembly elections in 2020 led to communal violence in north east Delhi which claimed 54 innocent lives. The Delhi police that is directly under the union government has refused to take any action against them.

The CPI(M) demands that Parvesh Verma, Surendra Jain and others responsible for the above speeches be immediately arrested and booked for deliberately trying to incite hatred against the Muslim community and disturb communal peace.