"Such heinous acts may be taken as the saffron outfits's preparation for the upcoming UP Assembly elections in 2017. They deem massacre of innocent Muslims as one of the strategies to attract electorate on communal lines," Azam Khan alleged.
"BJP has been inciting large scale violence in UP ahead of the assembly polls. Such incidents are occurring repeatedly after the Muzaffarnagar violence," he said.
He challenged the government to impose a countrywide ban on cow slaughter, saying that beef is being openly sold in states like Goa, Meghalaya, Pondicherry and West Bengal.
Alleging that Muslims were being victimised for staying in India like patriots instead of migrating to Pakistan during partition, he urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to prevent BJP volunteers from victimizing the community to meet "petty political ends".
Azam took a swipe at PM Modi quoting his plea of "Sarva Dharma Sambhava", saying the blot of 2002 Gujarat riots has not washed off him yet.