Asaduddin Owaisi on Telangana Issue in Hyderabad

MiM Mp Asaduddin Owaisi inspecting a riot hit area in Hyderabad


TRS full of lumpen ELEMENTS: ASADUDDIN OWAISI

Hyderabad: Terming the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) as a party filled with ‘lumpen elements of the RSS,’ Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MP from Hyderabad Asaduddin Owaisi has demanded that no decision on the division of the state should be taken by the Congress or the UPA government without speaking first to the Muslim community and its representatives. “TRS leader A Narendra, who was earlier in the BJP, took part in an RSS shakha in Shamshabad after he was sworn in as a minister from TRS in the UPA ministry. In fact, he went on to describe himself as an RSS worker first and a TRS leader next,” Owaisi told TOI from New Delhi where he is attending the monsoon session of Parliament. The MP claimed that the Muslim community had got a raw deal when the state was formed in 1956. “Bidar went to Karnataka because it had Kannada speaking people. Aurangabad went to Maharashtra because it had Marathi speaking people. There is a seizable number of Muslims in both these erstwhile Nizam-ruled cities, but they were split up when the state was formed,” said Owaisi. The MP said the MIM had told the Pranab Mukherjee committee on Telangana that a second States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) should be set up and the views of the Muslim community taken up before any decision is taken on the division of the state. “The Muslim community is the most backward. Look at the number of jobs they have, their literacy level. The MIM believes that the Congress should not pander to the interests of a view at the expense of the majority people of the state,” he said. On the issue of Hyderabad, Owaisi said it was linked with the division of the state and that the capital cannot go to either Telangana and Andhra and should remain a union territory. “In any case, our stance is that the views of the Muslim community should be taken and incorporated before any decision is taken on the division of the state. The issue of Hyderabad is linked to that,” he maintained.