Is Old City not part of India: Congress

HYDERABAD: Former minister Mohd Ali Shabbir on Tuesday condemned BJP state president Bandi Sanjay’s comments that saffron party will conduct a surgical strike on Old City after winning GHMC polls.

“As a member of parliament Bandi Sanjay must know that surgical strikes are conducted on enemy territory and not on our own brethren. Is Sanjay trying to say that the Old City is not part of India? He is stooping to low level just to win a few seats in GHMC elections. Such statements have the potential to create a divide in society on the basis of religion and it is regrettable that neither the Election Commission nor Hyderabad police are taking any action against him for such provocative statements,” Shabbir Ali said.

Stating that the issue of Rohingya should be dealt by the Centre, the Congress leader said BJP state president should question his own party which is in power for the last six years at the Centre, why it failed to resolve the issue. He also charged MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi with polarising voters on religious lines.