"They Want Muslim Votes But...": Asaduddin Owaisi Slams Akhilesh Yadav, Congress
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Asaduddin Owaisi, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) party chief, said he wanted to see Uttar Pradesh's 19 per cent Muslim population get fair representation.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and the Congress only want votes from Muslims but hesitate to give them election tickets, Hyderabad politician Asaduddin Owaisi said on Saturday, hotly refuting allegations that he only wanted to help the BJP in Uttar Pradesh by splitting the minority community's vote in next month's polls.
"The so-called secular people just want Muslims to lay the carpet and raise zindabad slogans. If you want tickets, you have to beg... This is their hypocrisy, double standards," he said in an interview with NDTV.
"You call someone from Saharanpur, take photos and then you betray him?" he said about the Samajwadi Party's tumultuous relationship with Muslim leader Imran Masood.
"A Maulana joins Congress. On your channel, a senior leader of Congress says that I have nothing to do with him," Mr Owaisi added, referring to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra distancing herself from controversial leader TR Khan.
