Hyderabad: AIMIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi on Sunday showered praises on the state government and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao for implementing several schemes aimed at the welfare and development of minorities and for making more budgetary allocations than any other state.
Speaking in the Legislative Assembly, Owaisi said the AIMIM and the BRS would continue to work together for the all-round development of the state. He said that the two parties will teach a befitting lesson to those who are spreading communal hatred to serve their selfish interests.
"Perhaps this will be our last session before the Assembly elections. We will meet again after Rao is elected Chief Minister for a third term," Owaisi said thunderous applause from the treasury benches.
He said that some parties were dubbing BRS and AIMIM as ‘B’ teams of other parties only to cover up their own follies and failures.
Owaisi praised the Chief Minister for strongly opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens (NRC) proposed by the Centre in 2019 and the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill.
"When several other states witnessed violent incidents due to protests against CAA and NRC, Telangana remained peaceful. There was no need for Muslims to hit the streets here," Owaisi stated.
Without naming the BJP, Owaisi said, "Bulldozers are being used to demolish houses of the poor in a few states, but in Telangana, double bedroom houses are being offered to the poor and homeless. While Muslims are being treated as second-grade citizens in other states, they are living happily in Telangana."
Owaisi thanked Rao for providing a government job, a 2BHK house and 'six lakh to Anjum Shaheen, wife of Saifuddin, who was killed in the Jaipur-Mumbai train on July 31.
The MIM leader launched a scathing attack against the Congress, under whose regimes, he said, Muslims were victims of riots, including in Ajmer, Bhiwandi and Bhagalpur.
"The Congress unleashed communal riots and the others are harassing Muslims with ghar wapsi, love-jihad, azaan and beef-ban campaigns," Owaisi said.
