Owaisis are threat to Muslims: Shiv Sena

Mumbai: After Uddhav Thackeray hit out at All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, his party Shiv Sena on Tuesday stepped up attack on the Hyderabad-based outfit, accusing it of poisoning the minds of minority community and demanded that Maharashtra government take strict action against it.

“The Owaisi brothers (MP Asaduddin and MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi) are in the habit of conceiving and spreading fundamentalist ideas. Both of them have poisoned the minds of Muslims in the country. After achieving success in Nanded Municipal Corporation, they now want to spread their wings to the Marathwada region,” Sena said in an editorial in its mouthpiece Saamana.

In an apparent reference to AIMIM, which won two seats in recently held Maharashtra assembly polls, Mr Thackeray had said, “Forces which are dangerous for Hindus have raised their heads in the recent Assembly polls.”