Electoral bonds are Owaisi

The Hyderabad parliamentarian says that if citizenship can be given on the basis of religion, it can also be taken away on the same basis

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All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday said his party did not receive a single electoral bond, and described those that did receive them as having sold themselves to buyers, and indicated that there exists a quid pro quo.

Mr. Owaisi, who represents Hyderabad in the Lok Sabha, was speaking at the Jalsa Youmul Quran, an annual public meeting held in Ramzan in the courtyard of Mecca Masjid, where he also criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for bringing in the rules of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)

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which, he said, is rooted in religion.

“Whoever is giving the bond will be known as the buyer. They are selling themselves, and they are buying. But who is the BTeam in India? Asaduddin Owaisi? Modi has taken ₹6,000 crore. Now after taking ₹6,000 crore, you’ve encashed it, and put it in the bank. Now tell me, who is siphoning money? What did Narendra

Modi say? “Na khaaonga, na khaane doonga”, I’ve amended it slightly: na khaaunga na khaane doonga, jab tak tum bond nahi diye mereku,” Mr. Owaisi said. He claimed that if a company purchases an electoral bond for any party, it does not do so for nothing. “When they [EB donors] are giving, then Modi is giving something to them [in return]. All parties are saying: you give me, I will give you everything. You give me a bond, take in return whatever you like (sic),” he said.

The AIMIM president clarified that he was never against Indian citizenship being accorded to persecuted communities from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.