Lok Sabha polls 2024 | At Bihar rally, Owaisi questions silence of Nitish over Modi's remarks

Asaduddin Owaisi challenges Nitish Kumar on Modi's anti-Muslim remarks, warns of consequences, criticizes BJP-Congress alliance.

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on April 24 challenged Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to make his stand clear on the controversial remarks against Muslims made recently by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Hyderabad MP was addressing an election rally in Kishanganj, where the AIMIM's Bihar unit chief and MLA Akhtarul Iman is locked in a triangular contest with sitting Congress MP Mohd Javed and Mujahid Alam of JD(U), which is headed by the Chief Minister.

"What has happened to Nitish Kumar? He has not spoken a word on Narendra Modi's utterances? Has he turned dumb? Is milk curdling inside his mouth", asked Mr. Owaisi.

The allusion was to the PM's address at a rally in Rajasthan where he accused the Congress of planning to give away belongings of poor people, including "mangalsutras" of women, to Muslims who "have more children" and accounted for a large number of "inflitrators (ghuspaithiye)".

Talking to the media, Mr. Owaisi warned "Muslims are the largest minority community in the country. They have a population of nearly 17 crore. Narendra Modi is spreading hatred against them. He has been doing so since 2002 (when communal violence broke out in Gujarat, under Modi's Chief Ministership).

If there are fresh riots in the country, Mr. Modi shall be squarely responsible".

In his election speech, Mr. Owaisi accused both the BJP as the Congress of having become "washing machines".