“Disgusting”: Asaduddin Owaisi On BJP Minister’s “No Muslim” Observation

Hyderabad:

An afternoon after a Karnataka minister stated the BJP would “indisputably now not give tickets (to contest elections) to Muslims”, AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi hit again, labelling the observation “disgusting and shameful, however now not sudden”. He stated such an ideology used to be incompatible with the Charter.

“Disgusting and shameful, however now not sudden. Hindutva believes only one group has the appropriate to political energy and all others are subservient. This ideology can not co-exist with our Charter, which talks about liberty, fraternity, equality and justice,” Mr Owaisi tweeted Monday afternoon.

Previous KS Eshwarappa, Karnataka’s Rural Building and Panchayat Raj Minister, stated the BJP would give tickets to Hindus however now not Muslims.

Mr Owaisi has discovered himself and his party within the crosshairs in contemporary days within the run as much as Tuesday’s Hyderabad municipal election. Necessarily a mayoral race, it has emerged as a high-stakes battleground for the BJP, which known as within the giant weapons to lend a hand it marketing campaign.

On Sunday – the overall day of campaigning – House Minister Amit Shah held a roadshow and stated the BJP would “rid Hyderabad of Nawab-Nizam tradition”. Yogi Adityanath, on the Previous Town – extensively noticed as a stronghold of Mr Owaisi -, stated the BJP would would rename the town as Bhagyanagar.

Karnataka MP Tejasvi Surya and Telangana BJP leader 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, despite the fact that, has now not taken those hits mendacity down.

On Saturday, at a public rally of his personal, he taunted the BJP for deploying such senior figures for a neighborhood election. “Now simplest Donald Trump is left to marketing campaign…” he stated.

Boosted by way of its victory in an Meeting bypoll for the Dubbaka seat previous this month, the BJP has centered this election as an opportunity to carve out an area for itself within the southern state.

In 2016 the party claimed simply 4 of 150 seats as Telangana Leader Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao’s TRS swept 99. A robust lead to Hyderabad now will lend a hand press its case in Tamil Nadu, the place Meeting elections are due early subsequent 12 months.

Effects for the 150 wards will likely be declared December 4.

With enter from ANI