YOGI: IF BJP FORMS GOVT, OWAISI WILL HAVE TO FLEE
Hyderabad The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stepped up its campaign for the December 7 Telangana elections, with its chief Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and Union minister Nitin Gadkari holding separate rallies in the poll-bound state on Sunday. Adityanath hit out at All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi, saying the 49-year-old will have to run away from Hyderabad if the BJP comes to power in the state. “If BJP forms the government in Telangana, friends, I want to assure you, Owaisi will have to run away from here, the same way the Nizam was made to run away from Hyderabad”, he said at a rally in Sangareddy.
HYDERABAD: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stepped up its campaign for the December 7 Telangana elections, with its chief Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and Union minister Nitin Gadkari holding separate rallies in the state on Sunday.
Adityanath hit out at All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi, saying the 49-year-old will have to run away from Hyderabad if the BJP comes to power in the state. “If BJP forms the government in Telangana, friends, I want to assure you, Owaisi will have to run away from here, the same way the Nizam was made to run away from Hyderabad”, he said at a rally in Sangareddy.
Launching a three-way attack on its rivals, the BJP bigwigs accused the state’s ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and the Congress of playing politics of “minority appeasement” and charged Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) of forming an “opportunistic alliance” to make political gains.
Addressing rallies at Narayanpet and Amangal constituencies, Shah said the Congress, in its manifesto, promised to construct government hospitals exclusively for members of minority communities if it was voted to power. “Are there no poor Hindus? What about health care for them?” he said.
He accused Congress of promising free electricity supply for mosques and churches. “We are not opposing it. But why don’t you provide free power supply to Hindu temples as well?”
The Congress rebutted Shah’s charges, accusing the him of spreading “fake news”. “Is there no better argument to improve your prospects in Telangana? As always, polarise & divide is your policy...,” state Congress tweeted.
According to Shah, the TRS was also indulging in the same vote bank politics as the Congress. “Even TRS president and caretaker chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao [KCR] has promised 12% quota for Muslims with an eye on their votes.
Addressing a rally in Uppal, Gadkari said the ‘Maha Kootami’ (grand alliance) between the Congress, the TDP, the Telangana Jana Samithi (TJS) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) was formed only to meet the opposition parties’ vested interests, Gadkari said: “N Chandrababu Naidu was sailing with the BJP till recently and he has now joined hands with the Congress for selfish political gains”.
Naidu rejected Gadkari’s charge and said: “We have allied with the Congress to safeguard the democracy, which was stifled during the Modi regime,” he said, addressing a joint rally with Congress general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad in Hyderabad.