Congress Leaders Call Owaisi Brothers "Snakes"

Senior Congress leaders on Sunday targeted the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) and described its leaders, the Owaisi brothers, as "snakes".

Addressing the State Minorities' Convention held by the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) at Imperial Gardens in Secunderabad on Sunday, AICC Minorities Department Chairman Khursheed Ahmed Sayeed said, "Two snakes from here have gone to Maharashtra and questioned what the Congress did for the Muslims."

Stating that no Party did what Congress did for the Muslims, he said that hundreds of minority institutions being run across the country were started during the Congress regime.

Khursheed Ahmed asked whether the Muslims were not enjoying the benefits of national schemes like BPL Cards and Aadhar cards. However, Muslims were being given a wrong message by the MIM that the Congress had done nothing for them.

"You have fed milk to the snakes who defeated the Congress in more than 20 seats in Maharashtra. Now they are searching for candidates in Jharkhand and Delhi," he said.

Rajya Sabha MP V Hanumantha Rao asked the Congress workers to campaign in the Old City against the MIM. He said that if the MIM was not stopped in the Old City, it would go to different States and damage the Congress.

Citing the example of CPM leader Madhu, he asked when leaders of marginal parties in Hyderabad could move freely there, then why could workers of a national party not campaign in the Old City.

He said that the Congress should give triple 'Talaq' to the MIM, and there should be no adjustments, whatsoever, in the future.

Other Congress leaders including Mir Hadi Ali, Mohammed Abdullah Sohail and others demanded that the Congress announce the candidature of TPCC Minorities Department Chairman Md Sirajuddin for the Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat. (INN)