AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi responded to a Karnataka minister’s stunning remark (File)
Hyderabad:
A day after a Karnataka minister stated the BJP would “undoubtedly not give tickets (to contest elections) to Muslims”, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi hit again, labelling the comment “disgusting and shameful, however not stunning”. He stated such an ideology was incompatible with the Structure.
“Disgusting and shameful, however not stunning. Hindutva believes only one group has the fitting to political energy and all others are subservient. This ideology can not co-exist with our Structure, which talks about liberty, fraternity, equality and justice,” Mr Owaisi tweeted Monday afternoon.
Earlier KS Eshwarappa, Karnataka’s Rural Improvement and Panchayat Raj Minister, stated the BJP would give tickets to Hindus but not Muslims.
Mr Owaisi has discovered himself and his get together within the crosshairs in latest days within the run as much as Tuesday’s Hyderabad municipal election. Basically a mayoral race, it has emerged as a high-stakes battleground for the BJP, which referred to as within the huge weapons to assist it marketing campaign.
On Sunday – the ultimate day of campaigning – Residence Minister Amit Shah held a roadshow and stated the BJP would “rid Hyderabad of Nawab-Nizam culture“. Yogi Adityanath, on the Outdated Metropolis – extensively seen as a stronghold of Mr Owaisi -, stated the BJP would would rename the city as Bhagyanagar.
Karnataka MP Tejasvi Surya and Telangana BJP chief Bandi Sanjay have referred to Mr Owaisi as “Jinnah” and threatened a “surgical strike to flush out Rohingyas and Pakistanis”.
The BJP, which claims an “unholy alliance” between the ruling TRS and the AIMIM, has additionally accused them of banking on votes from “Rohingya and Pakistani infiltrators”.
Mr Owaisi, although, has not taken these hits mendacity down.
On Saturday, at a public rally of his personal, he taunted the BJP for deploying such senior figures for an area election. “Now only Donald Trump is left to campaign…” he stated.
Boosted by its victory in an Meeting bypoll for the Dubbaka seat earlier this month, the BJP has focused this election as an opportunity to carve out an area for itself within the southern state.
In 2016 the get together claimed simply 4 of 150 seats as Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao’s TRS swept 99. A robust end in Hyderabad now will assist press its case in Tamil Nadu, the place Meeting elections are due early subsequent 12 months.
Outcomes for the 150 wards shall be declared December 4.
With enter from ANI
