Hyderabad: BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Hyderabad, Madhavi Latha took a sharp jibe at the sitting MP and AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi. She said that she has been provided with Y+ Security to fight for the truth. “Asaduddin Owaisi has friendships with the kings’ group…He keeps quiet when atrocities are inflicted on women,” Latha said. Further, she said, “Who is giving him (Asaduddin Owaisi) death threats?… Look at the level of his friendships. He is friends with people from ISIS, the kings’ group…He says that he has a stronghold here and then says that he is receiving death threats.”
Tag: AIMIM chief
-
A girl in hijab will be country’s PM one day: Asaduddin Owaisi
By PTI
LUCKNOW: A girl wearing Hijab will become the prime minister of the country one day, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has said amid the controversy over Muslim women’s headscarves.
“If a girl decides to wear Hijab and asks her parents to do so and when her parents allow her to wear it, who can stop her from wearing it? We will see it, Inshaallah Owaisi is heard saying in a 43-second video of his address in an election rally.
“The girls will wear hijab, will wear Niqab and go to colleges and become doctors, collectors, SDMs and businessmen,” Owaisi was heard saying in the video, shared on his Twitter handle.
“You all keep in mind, perhaps when I am not alive, a girl wearing a hijab will become the prime minister of this country one day,” he added.
The hijab row started in Karnataka in December-end when a few students of a government pre-university college in Udupi, attending classes in headscarves, were asked to leave the campus.
The matter then spread to different parts of the state, with youngsters, backed by right-wing outfits, responding by wearing saffron scarves.
With the protests taking a violent turn at some places earlier this week, the state government on Tuesday declared a three-day holiday for the institutions.
Hyderabad MP Owaisi’s party All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen is fighting the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections as part of the Bhagidari Parivartan Morcha, its pre-poll alliance with little-known Jan Adhikar Party of former state minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and an all-India body of government employees of the backward, Dalits and minority community.
-
Owaisi’s suspected attackers sent into 14-days judicial remand to jail
Express News Service
LUCKNOW: The two persons – Sachin and Shubham – arrested by the UP police in connection with an attack on the convoy of AIMIM chief Assaduddin Owaisi near Chhajrasi toll plaza on Delhi-Meerut Expressway, on Thursday, were sent to jail under 14-day judicial remand after being produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Meerut on Friday.
An FIR was also lodged and the two accused were booked under Section 307 (attempt to murder) of the IPC in connection with the attack case.
One of the two accused Sachin Pundit has claimed to be a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party as he has put up the membership slip of the BJP on social media.
In the slip, his name is written as ‘Deshbhakt Sachin Hindu’. He has also shared his pictures with BJP leaders, including UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, MP Mahesh Sharma.
Sachin, an LLM degree holder, lives with his family in Durai village in Badalpur in Noida. However, the cops are verifying his educational credentials. As per the police sources, Sachin’s father, Vinod Pandit, works for private companies on contract. Cops found that a case of attempt to murder was lodged against Sachin earlier also.
Vinod Pandit, Sachin’s father, said that he used to provide labourers to 20-25 private companies on contract and Sachin used to work with him. His father shared that Sachin had left home at around 8 am on the fateful day saying he was going to discuss something with the management of one of the companies. He had been a little upset for the past two to three days.
On the other, the second accused, Shubham, is a resident of Saharanpur. His parents are no more. A Class 10 pass out, Shubham comes from a farmer family, said the Saharanpur police authorities. Shubham has no criminal case against him so far. “Shubham has no criminal history in Saharanpur. He doesn’t visit his ancestral home frequently. He mostly lives in Modipuram area of Ghaziabad,” said Saharanpur SP, Rural, Atul Sharma.
According to ADG (L&O) Prashant Kumar, the accused have shared with the cops that they were hurt by the “provocative” statements of the Lok Sabha MP Owaisi and his party members because of which they planned the attack.
During interrogation, they said that both of them were miffed with the statements of Owaisi and his brother Akbaruddin Owaisi. They watched videos of Owaisi’s speeches on Facebook and Twitter. The ADG said that the two claimed that they were offended by the remarks of the Lok Sabha MP regarding a particular community and also Ayodhya temple and Ram Janmabhoomi issue.
When they learnt that Owaisi would be participating in public rallies in Meerut and Kithore, they decided to follow him, said the police sources. Country-made pistols were recovered from the two. After being arrested and questioned, they disclosed the names of two other persons, and efforts are on to nab them, police said.
-
UP polls: BJP will form govt, there should be no doubt about it, says Adityanath
By PTI
LUCKNOW: The BJP will win the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, and there should be no doubt about it, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said, after AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi’s reported remarks that the saffron party will not be allowed to form government in the state.The Om Prakash Rajbhar-led Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) have announced to fight the elections together.
Owaisi had reportedly said, “Inshallah, (we) will not allow Yogi (Adityanath) to become the chief minister of UP again. If our morale is high and we work hard, then everything will happen. Inshallah, our endeavour is that the BJP government is not formed in Uttar Pradesh.”
Reacting to the AIMIM chief”s statement, Adityanath on Saturday said, “Owaisi ji is a big national leader, he goes to different parts of the country for campaigning, and he has his own ”janaadhaar” (voter base). If he has challenged the BJP, then the BJP worker accepts his challenge.”
“The BJP will form the government, and there should be no doubt on this,” the chief minister said.
He added that the BJP”s central leadership has fixed a target of 300 plus assembly seats in the 2022 elections. The party will win over 300 seats, Adityanath asserted.
-
Eyeing 2021 polls, Owaisi lands in Bengal to discuss election plan with prominent Muslim cleric
By Express News Service
KOLKATA: Signalling new players’ entry in the 2021 fray in Bengal politics, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi’s Sunday visit to Furfura Sharif in Hooghly district to meet a prominent Islamic cleric has threatened to chip away at the ruling Trinamool Congress’ minority vote bank.The meeting between Abbas Siddiqui, the cleric who has been speaking out against the state government and planning to float a minority outfit of his own, and Owaisi is said to be significant with the advent of new equations in Bengal’s political landscape. Siddiqui has not yet announced whether his outfit would form an alliance with the AIMIM or his followers would contest under the banner of Owaisi’s party in the upcoming elections. “Our party will participate in the 2021 Assembly elections with Siddiqui,” said Owaisi.
ALSO READ | AIMIM to highlight political empowerment of weaker sections in West Bengal: Owaisi
AIMIM’s state secretary Zameerul Hassan said the party will field candidates in the 2021 Assembly elections. “We are yet to prepare the list of the constituencies where we will contest,” he said.
Muslims, who form 31 percent of the total electorate, are the deciding factor in at least 85 Assembly seats and in 30 more seats, they have a significant presence. Traditionally, the minority votes are largely seen as the ruling TMC’s strong support-base since 2011. The clerics of Furfura Sharif have had an influence over minority voters in south Bengal. The community shifted their preference from to the TMC in 2011 resulting in the change of guard in the state after the 34 years’ regime of the Left Front.
After putting up a good show in last year’s Bihar Assembly elections by bagging five seats, the AIMIM is now eyeing the upcoming Bengal polls and the party is keen on leaving its footprint on the politically volatile soil of Bengal, said Hassan.
At Furfura Sharif, West Bengal in a meeting with Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui sb, Pirzada Naushad Siddiqui sb, Pirzada Baizid Amin sb & Janab Sabir Ghaffar sb pic.twitter.com/lptUX24JnJ
— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) January 3, 2021“Owaisi wanted to keep his meeting with Siddiqui secret because we were apprehensive that the TMC-led state government would stop him from exiting the airport. He went straight to Hooghly from the airport, met Siddiqui and flew back to Hyderabad,” said Hassan.
Hassan has already started organising workers’ meet in minority-dominated districts in the state for the last two weeks to consolidated minority votes in favour of the AIMIM.
Owaisi’s meeting with Siddiqui evoked a sharp reaction from the TMC. “It is known that AIMIM is nothing but a proxy of the BJP. Owaisi is well aware that Muslims in the state are Bengali speaking and they will not support him. His attempt to forge ties with Siddiqui will prove futile,” said TMC MP and spokesperson Saugata Roy.