Speaking in town on Saturday, Asaduddin Owaisi said it no longer seemed like an election in Hyderabad.
Hyderabad:
The head of AIMIM, Asaduddin Owaisi, has said that the only person left to campaign in the city was the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and that he criticized the BJP for deploying its top leaders for a simple municipal election in Hyderabad.
Addressing a public rally at Hyderabad’s Langer House on Saturday, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader said it no longer seemed like a Hyderabad choice, given the kind of leaders campaigning for the BJP. .
“It’s like we are choosing a prime minister instead of Narendra Modi. I was at a rally in Karwan and I said that everyone had been called here. One boy said they should have called Trump too. He was right, only Trump is left.” said Owaisi, according to an ANI report.
The BJP has been displaying all its best weapons, from the national JP Nadda party to Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath, to campaign for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Elections scheduled for December 1. Even the Union Minister of the Interior, Amit Shah, is scheduled to attend various ballot box-related programs in the city today.
Last Thursday, Owaisi even challenged Prime Minister Modi to campaign for the elections to see how many seats his party, the BJP, wins.
The campaign has also gotten quite scathing in recent weeks, with city police even having to step in and warn politicians against sensitive community speeches.
For example, BJP state president Bandi Sanjay recently threatened a “surgical strike to drive out the Rohingya and Pakistanis” in Hyderabad. South Bengaluru MP Tejaswi Surya called his Hyderabad counterpart Asaduddin Owaisi a “modern Mohammed Ali Jinnah”. These statements have been roundly denounced by TRS, Congress, and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen led by Owaisi.
For his part, Telangana Prime Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has called on Hyderabad voters to keep “divisive forces” at bay and elect “progressive parties”.
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