Daijiworld Media Network - Hyderabad
Hyderabad, Nov 26: In a retort to the comment by a BJP leader of a 'surgical strike' on old Hyderabad to 'weed out infiltrators', AIMIM chief Assaduddin Owaisi said that if Pakistanis are there in the old city, then it is Prime Minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah who are responsible for it.
"If there are Pakistanis in the old city, then Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah are responsible for it. Because it is their failure that they were sleeping and Pakistanis have entered here, I have never seen them here. They want to build a wall of hatred between Hindus and Muslims," he said.
Addressing a public gathering at Malakpet, Owaisi asked BJP to bring Prime Minister Modi for campaigning to see how many seats it wins as they did in Bihar. "In Bihar, during the 2019 Parliament elections, the BJP gained victory on 222 seats and now you have come down to 75 seats in Assembly elections after one-and-a-half year. You bring Narendra Modi to the old city and campaign here. We will see what happens. Organise his meeting here and we will see how many seats you will win here."
He also alleged that the BJP wants to destroy the name of Hyderabad. "Every Politician who comes from Delhi is talking only about me. These are municipal elections, they will not talk about development. They have no answers for assistance that the BJP government has provided for the development of Hyderabad between 2019 and 2020. Hyderabad has become a developed city, many MNCs have been set up here, but the BJP wants to destroy it, by bringing down the brand name of Hyderabad," he said.
AIMIM party chief Owaisi also attacked Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, stating that he made a big mistake by accepting to enforce the coronavirus-induced lockdown in the state. "The chief minister should not have done it because in the Constitution, law and order is a state issue. I had told him not to do so. I told him that he should be the one to decide when to enforce the lockdown. It was a big mistake, but when I talk about it, the BJP says that I have become (Muhammad Ali) Jinnah. Did you have anything to do with Jinnah 70 years ago? The BJP must understand that the followers of Jinnah have gone to Pakistan. We rejected Jinnah and also the "two-nation theory". They say that I am against Hindus; the BJP has demolished a mosque, we ask for Rs 10 crore for development of a temple in Lal Darwaza" he stated in a report by ANI.