Asaduddin Owaisi has said that the BJP wants to destroy Hyderabad.
Hyderabad:
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi today challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to campaign for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections on December 1 and see how many seats his party, the BJP, wins.
“You bring Narendra Modi to the old city and campaign here. We will see what happens. Host your meeting here and we will see how many seats you will win here, “All India President Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) said at a public meeting in Hyderabad, according to ANI.
Owai’s defiance of the prime minister came amid the BJP displaying its big guns for a municipal election and even making what is construed as deeply polarizing accusations.
“These are municipal elections, they will not talk about development … Hyderabad has become a developed city, many multinationals have settled here, but the BJP wants to destroy it, tearing down the Hyderabad brand,” Owaisi said. according to an ANI report.
The statements by the four-time MP from Hyderabad come days after top BJP leaders, such as the chairman of the state party, Bandi Sanjay, and the deputy from South Bengaluru, Tejaswi Surya, denounced the presence of infiltrators in the town of Hyderabad old city.
Sanjay on Wednesday threatened a “surgical strike to drive out the Rohingya and Pakistanis” in Hyderabad. A few days ago, Mr. Surya called the head of AIMIM a “modern Mohammed Ali Jinnah” whose party allegedly protected thousands of Rohingya in the Old City area.
In response, Owaisi today blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Interior Minister Amit Shah for the infiltrators hiding in the city.
“It is their failure (of PM Modi and Mr. Shah) that they were sleeping and that Pakistanis entered here, I have never seen them here. They want to build a wall of hatred between Hindus and Muslims,” Owaisi said.
The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti and Congress have also opposed the use of terms such as “surgical strike” during an election campaign.
Minister KT Rama Rao, who is leading the TRS campaign, said that the BJP head of state was embarrassing his own party leaders by asking these questions and making wild accusations.
“Have they infiltrated right under the noses of the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Defense of the Union? Mr Amit Shah would have to answer why they have not acted in this regard.” Rao told NDTV.
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