A Owaisi's "Your Brother Lost Amethi" Jibe To Priyanka Gandhi's Attack
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Mr Owaisi's sharp response came after Priyanka Gandhi, while campaigning in UP's Raebareli, another Congress bastion, attacked the AIMIM leader for working with the BJP.
AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi took on the Congress' Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Thursday after she accused the Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP of "working directly with the Bharatiya Janata Party" and helping the ruling outfit by splitting votes in key constituencies.
Referring to Rahul Gandhi's shock 2019 defeat - he lost the Congress bastion of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh to senior BJP leader and Union Minister Smriti Irani - Mr Owaisi pointed out neither his party nor he had been involved in that fight. He also attacked the Congress over "non-secular alliances" - with ex-Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's (then undivided) Shiv Sena, which he linked to the Babri Masjid demolition in UP's Ayodhya.
"Priyanka Gandhi Vadra... your brother lost Amethi. Did I come and fight there? In Maharashtra, you have an alliance with Uddhav Thackeray. Is he secular? This is the same Shiv Sena whose workers, on December 6, destroyed the Babri Masjid. Are you with them?"
