All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “going back to his original agenda of” spewing venom against Muslims and creating suspicion about the community.
In an interview to the Hindustan Times, Owaisi said Modi has forgotten India’s key achievements like G20 and Chandrayaan and started spreading lies about the Muslim community.
“He has forgotten G20, Chandrayaan, 5 trillion economy, permanent Security Council seat, Vishwaguru, Viskit Bharat … all have gone to the dustbin. They have come back to the agenda that they started, which they will continue into the future,” he told the newspaper.
The AIMIM chief, however, exuded confidence that India will get a Muslim prime minister and it would be a woman wearing a hijab.
“Inshallah, it will be in the form of a woman wearing a hijab and heading this great nation. The time will come. Maybe I will not be alive to see that day, but it will happen inshallah,” he said.
On Sunday, addressing an election rally in Khilwat, Owaisi urged AIMIM supporters in various constituencies where the party is not contesting to vote for the Congress candidates to defeat the BJP.
Owaisi is seeking re-election from Hyderabad for a fifth consecutive term. It was the lone seat the AIMIM had won in 2019 elections in which the BRS bagged nine seats, BJP four and Congress three.