Parties busy proving they are Hindu: Asaduddin Owaisi

HYDERABAD: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi alleged that BJP, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are appeasing Hindus just to win elections.
Addressing an anti-CAA protest in Karnataka , Owaisi said: “Firqa Parasti (fascism) in the country has increased to such an extent that if an election has to be won, let it be Congress or AAP or BJP, they try to prove who is the bigger Hindu. While BJP takes Ram’s name, AAP takes Hanuman’s name and a Congress leader claims he is Shiv bhakt.”
Criticising Congress leader Rahul Gandhi without naming him, Owaisi said, “The Congress leader will become 50 years old soon, but he is still youth.If he is youth, I am forever young. Only my beard is white, but my heart is young. This Congress leader claims himself to be a Shiv bhakt.”
The Hyderabad MP recalled Godhra massacre case. He said that people who killed innocents have been granted bail, and an innocent school principal has been jailed on sedition charges. Owaisi was referring to the bail granted to convicts in Sardarpur riot case of 2002 (post-Godhra), and a school principal in Bidar being booked under sedition charges in January after students staged a anti-CAA play at the school.