PM Modi ‘MD of factory of lies’: Asaduddin Owaisi

HYDERABAD: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of doing little to stop mob lynching in the last five years and added that if BJP is voted to power again, communal forces will further grow in strength.


Referring to the incident in Assam where a Muslim man was beaten up by a mob on suspicion of selling beef, Owaisi said those who attacked Shaukat Ali knew that their leader was Modi. “He (Modi) will be remembered for mob lynching. Ali has been in the trade for the last 35 years. These buffoons are not fit to be called human beings, they are animals,” he said.

After Modi became PM, confidence of such forces had only gone up, said the MIM chief, ahead of the April 11 polls in Telangana. In recent years, cow vigilantes have thrashed several men, accusing them of selling, transporting and eating cow meat.

Hitting out at BJP manifesto mentioning building a Ram temple, he accused Modi of violating the constitutional oath. “This government asked Supreme Court to hand over excess land, but Uttar Pradesh government changes its stand. If you are in government, you have taken oath on the Constitution and your responsibility is to be religiously neutral,” said Owaisi. He said that only a gathbandhan could defeat BJP in Uttar Pradesh.

“If there is a factory of lies, then Prime Minister Modi will be the managing director,” said the MIM chief. He also said that it is not possible to scrap Articles 370 and 35A, as proposed by BJP.

Speaking about Rs 8 crore of BJP money seized by cops on Monday, he said it was a result of “cashless scheme”.