Owaisi said, โThey think they have danger from halal meat, Muslimsโ caps, and their beards. They have problems with their food habits. The party is actually against Muslim identityโ
Hyderabad: Lambasting the Centre, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was against โMuslim identityโ.
โThey think they have danger from halal meat, Muslimsโ caps, and their beards. They have problems with their food habits. The party is actually against Muslim identity,โ the AIMIM chief said. He further alleged that BJPโs real agenda is to end Indiaโs diversity.
โPMโs words โSabka saath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwasโ are empty rhetoric. BJPโs real agenda is to end Indiaโs diversity and Muslim identity,โ Owaisi added.
Notably, Owaisi is planning to gain a stronghold in Uttar Pradeshโs politics.
Owaisiโs party will contest all the seats in future elections in the state, as per the Uttar Pradesh AIMIM president Shaukat Ali.
Ali also claimed that many leaders of the Samajwadi Party will join the Asaduddin Owaisi-led party in the future.
Speaking to ANI earlier, Ali said that the Muslims have always supported โsecular forcesโ to defeat the BJP.
โThe people are coming towards AIMIM now. We are contesting in East UP, Purwanchal, Central UP and Bundelkhand. Leaders of the Samajwadi Party will join MIM. The 2017 elections were polarised by the BJP through the media. The Muslims thought that the Samajwadi Party could defeat the BJP. Since independence, the Muslims have always supported secular forces to defeat the BJP,โ he said.
Stating that his party chief Owaisi never polarised by speaking on the โHindu-Muslim issuesโ, Ali said that the party will keep fighting for the community.
โOwaisi never spoke about Hindu-Muslim issues. ATMs were blacklisted in Muslim areas, so it became national news. It became a Hindu-Muslim issue. There are hardly any banks in Muslim areas in UP. No schools, no proper hospitals and medicines in these areas. We will keep fighting for all this,โ Ali said.
Last month, after the Uttar Pradesh government ordered a survey of Islamic educational institutions or Madrassas in Kanpur, Owaisi alleged that the government is targeting Waqf property which is a โsystematic targeting of Muslimsโ.
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Attacking the Uttar Pradesh government, Owaisi alleged that there is a โconspiracyโ behind madrasasโ survey.
While addressing the media persons in Hyderabad, he said, โWhy are you (UP Govt) conducting a survey of Waqf properties only? Do it for Hindu Endowments Board properties too. I was saying thereโs a conspiracy behind madrasasโ survey. Itโs coming to the fore. UP govt is violating Article 300 (Right to property).โ
โIf someone has illegally registered govt property as Waqf property, fight it in court, go to Tribunal. UP govt is targeting Waqf property and trying to snatch it away. Such a targeted survey is absolutely wrong. We condemn it. Itโs systematic targetting of Muslims,โ he added.
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