Muslim Voters Not Your Jagir’, Owaisi tells Mamata

TIL Desk/National/Hyderabad/ A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the BJP for trying to import Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM in Bengal to sharpen the communal polarisation and divide the Hindu-Muslim votes among themselves, the AIMIM chief hit back saying “Never was a man born who can buy Asaduddin Owaisi with money.

“The Lok Sabha MP also said that Muslim voters are not Ms Banerjee’s “jagir” or property. The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) after its good show in the Bihar assembly polls has announced to contest in next year’s Bengal polls.

In the recently concluded Bihar elections, the AIMIM won five seats in the Muslims dominated Seemanchal region on the border of West Bengal. “To divide the Muslim votes, the BJP is spending crores of rupees to bring in a party from Hyderabad. The plan is that BJP will eat into Hindu votes, and this Hyderabad party will eat into Muslim votes.