Asaduddin Owaisi VS Amit Shah on NIA

Asaduddin Owaisi and Amit Shah sparred over the NIA (Amendment) Bill which will give the investigative agency sweeping powers.

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00:00This is not going to work. We have to listen.

00:05The purpose of this law is to end terrorism.

00:13If the victim is a Muslim and the accused is a non-Muslim, you won't do anything?

00:30This is not going to work. We have to listen.

00:35The purpose of this law is to end terrorism.

00:40If the victim is a Muslim and the accused is a non-Muslim, you won't do anything?

00:45If the victim is a Muslim and the accused is a non-Muslim, you won't do anything?

00:50This is not going to work. We have to listen.

00:55If the victim is a Muslim and the accused is a non-Muslim, you won't do anything?

01:02First of all, I want to assure you that Narendra Modi's government

01:07has no intention of misusing this law.

01:14The purpose of this law is to end terrorism.

01:23But, we won't even look at which religious person did this.

01:32These two things should be clear.

01:46It talks about affecting the interests of India. What is that?

01:51Can you please define what is affecting the interests of India?

01:55In Bill, it cannot be so vague.

01:57Now, you say this is affecting the interests of India.

02:00You are creating a device for yourself to even bring in some people who write a blog

02:05against your ideology and your party, sir.

02:08Assuming that a terrorist offence takes place, you send an NIA officer and you say here that

02:14our laws will prevail. It will not prevail because the local laws will prevail.

02:18What powers are you giving to that NIA officer?

02:21The reason behind is that, do we have the diplomatic clout?

02:25Please don't compare ourselves with US and Israel.

02:28These are not in true sense democratic countries, sir.

02:31You have a firm resolve against terrorism, why are you not appealing?

02:35Against the Mecca Masjid blast, who's responsible? Raise accountability.

02:40Who's responsible? 66 people who died in Samjhauta blast.

02:43Why are you not appealing?

02:46Why are you not appealing against Ajmer blast?

02:52Sir, these are all terrorist offences and I hope that the government will reply to it.

02:57Because you see, the narrative is over.

03:00What is the narrative, sir?

03:01That if the victim is a Muslim and the accused is a non-Muslim, then you will not do anything.