A large crowd belonging to one particular community protested in front of a media house in the busy Richmond road in Bengaluru on Friday. The crowd under the banner of Anjuman-e-Imamia gathered outside India Today and Aaj Tak office shouting slogans against tweet by a journalist. They came in a march from Masjid-e-Askari to Aaj Tak’s office allegedly to protest against Aaj Tak anchor Rohit Sardana’s comments against Bibi Fatima, the daughter of the Holy Prophet, the wife of the Holy Prophet and Immaculate Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ.”
A Shia Muslim group had earlier put out a statement that Rohit Sardana had to apologise on camera within 48 hours. Sardana had tweeted an apology earlier.
Sardana’s tweet in which he referred to women in Islam and Christianity, including Prophet Muhammad’s wife Ayesha, daughter Fatima and Mary, Jesus Christ’s mother. He asked why the title of ‘Sexy’ was only put after a Hindu goddess and asked if the same could be done for the other names as well. His tweet was regarding the film Sexy Durga. This has triggered immediate protest and Sardana had apologised.