A video clip of former JNU student Umar Khalid’s speech that he gave in Maharashtra’s Amravati a week before riots in Delhi has been doing the rounds on social media.

In the clip, he is heard asking people to come out on streets in large numbers when US President Donald Trump reaches India on February 24.

BJP IT Cell chief Amit Malviya shared the clip on Twitter. It has garnered over 100,000 views.

Umar Khalid, already facing sedition charges, gave a speech in Amaravati on 17Feb, where he exhorted a largely Muslim audience to come out on streets in huge numbers when Trump arrives in India on 24th.Was the violence in Delhi planned weeks in advance by the Tukde Tukde gang? pic.twitter.com/feUMwpPeKS

— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) March 2, 2020

The video was also shared by Akali Dal leader Manjinder Sirsa. It has been viewed over 4000 times.

ये सिर्फ़ Hate Speech नही… खुलेआम दंगे की साज़िश हैHow long will we continue to ignoring Tukde-Tukde gang and their harmful effects on Delhi@UmarKhalidJNU @republic @ANI @TimesNow @ZeeNews @OpIndia_com pic.twitter.com/4VRVY8ufAI

— Manjinder S Sirsa (@mssirsa) March 2, 2020

‘I promise that when Donald Trump will visit India on February 24, we will show how Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government is trying to divide the country and tarnish the principles of Mahatma Gandhi… We will come out on streets in huge numbers to tell (the US President) that people of India are fighting to bring everyone together,’ Khalid can be heard saying while addressing a rally in Maharashtra’s Amravati on February 17.

Allegations

Sirsa, in an interview with Republic TV, said, ‘It was all organised by these kinds of people. Aam Aadmi Party is totally involved in this. Their Corporator is involved in the riots and they planned the whole thing. The plan was that when Donald Trump arrives they will try to scare Donald Trump and instil fear in the minds of the people across the globe which eventually will benefit the Opposition and Aam Aadmi Party.’

FIR

Filed under sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly) and 120B (criminal conspiracy)of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the FIR filed based on a complaint of one Sub-Inspector Arvind Kumar of the Crime Branch does not name Meeran. It has been registered against two persons — Umar Khalid, former JNU student and activist, and Danish, a resident of Bhajanpura.

The case registered by the Crime Branch was transferred for investigation by the Special Cell, which has made it more stringent by adding severe sections of the IPC such as 120B read with 124A (sedition), 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 353 (assault to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 212 (harbouring offender), 395 (dacoity), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of Rs 50), 435 (mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to cause damage to amount of Rs 100), 436 (mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to destroy house, etc.), 452 (house-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint), 454 (lurking house-trespass), 109 (abetment), 114 (abettor present when offence is committed), 147, 148, 149, 124A, 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language) and 34 (common intention) in addition to 3 and 4 of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property (PDPP) Act and 25 and 27 of the Arms Act.

In the original FIR registered by the Crime Branch, the complainant — Sub-Inspector Arvind Kumar — states, ‘One of my informers has informed me that the riots, which took place in Delhi on February 23, 24 and 25, was a pre-planned conspiracy, which was hatched by JNU student Umar Khalid and his accomplices — who are associated with two different organisations.

Umar Khalid — as part of the conspiracy — made inflammatory speeches at two different places appealed people to hit roads and block it in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s proposed visit to India so that propaganda can be spread internationally that minorities in India are persecuted.

As planned, Umar Khalid and his accomplices brought women and children on roads at several places in Delhi to cause riots. As part of the conspiracy, firearms, petrol bomb, acid bottles, stones, catapults and other lethal weapons were collected at several parts of Delhi such as Maujpur, Kardampuri, Jaffrabad, Chand Bagh, Gokalpuri, Shiv Vihar and surrounding areas. One Danish, S/O Khalid, a resident of Bhajanpura, was tasked with mobilising outsiders from two different places to take part in the riots. As part of the conspiracy, the road under Jaffrabad Metro Station was got blocked by women and children so that tension can be aggravated by causing inconvenience to people and the same can lead to riots. It was made sure that the children of the minority community who study in the schools in these areas reach home early as planned. If this …