HyderabadAIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday criticized the NDA government at the Center over the India-China border dispute and sought to know why it was “running away” from the debate on the issue in Parliament if it had nothing to hide. . Addressing reporters, he said, “It is a complete bluff and bluff. If the Modi government has nothing to hide, why is it running away from debate in Parliament?” He was replying to a question about External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s alleged comments on the India-China border dispute in an interview to a news agency.
“It is a fact that the NDA government does not want to debate the Chinese PLA army’s occupation of 2,000 sq km of land in Depsong and Demchok,” he claimed.
“… is he (Jaishankar) accepting that the Prime Minister misled the nation by saying ‘na koi ghusa hai, na koi ghusega’?” the Hyderabad MP asked. Citing a research paper presented at the annual police meeting held in Delhi last January, he said the Indian Army has lost access to 26 of the 65 patrolling points along the LAC. Owaisi said, how can the foreign minister forget the paper presented in the DGP conference.
“Basically, we haven’t got the status quo that was before June or July of 2020.” Owaisi accused the NDA government of being “afraid of the truth” and said that was why a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots had to be banned.
Hitting out at former Rajasthan Deputy CM Sachin Pilot, the Hyderabad MP alleged that the Congress leader took help from the BJP to become the chief minister of that state. “He (Pilot) wanted to become the chief minister and took the help of the BJP. The whole world knows about it. He brought his group of MLAs and they were supported, promoted and encouraged by the BJP. He did not succeed.” In achieving this, it is true,” he said.
Owaisi further said that AIMIM has been continuously fighting the BJP on ideological grounds. Referring to the recent killing of two men from Rajasthan in Haryana, the AIMIM chief said that Pilot could not pronounce the names of the deceased – ‘Junaid and Naseer’ and wanted to know if they were from his own community. What will be their reaction? killed in the same way.
Owaisi took AICC chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s remark that the Congress-led coalition coming to power at the Center next year with a pinch of salt, adding that there are many internal squabbles within the grand old party. He said, “It will be known in 2024. We cannot say anything now.” In 2019, there was a direct contest between the Congress and the BJP on 186 Lok Sabha seats and the Congress could win only 16 seats. Owaisi said, “Senior leaders of his party were defeated in Amethi.”
He also recalled the electoral failures of the Congress despite being in power once in Telangana, Maharashtra and Delhi assembly elections. On Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan’s reported remarks in support of the Uniform Civil Code, Owaisi said, “The governor is, unfortunately, behaving as a member of the ruling party”.
“I am not denying that he has no right to say. But, the post of governor, traditionally, the governor does not interfere in the agenda of the ruling party or the promotion of politics. That is what he is doing. ”
Claiming that triple talaq did not do justice to Muslim women, he questioned why Khan could not talk about “Hindu undivided tax exemption”, condemned the “love jihad laws” passed by the BJP. Let’s discuss “conversion laws”.