Bandi challenges MIM to contest from all 119 seats in Telangana

HYDERABAD: The BJP on Thursday challenged the AIMIM to contest from all the 119 Assembly seats “if it had the courage”, with BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar declaring that his party will show the AIMIM its place by decimating it in the elections. Addressing a public meeting at Atmakur in Mahbubnagar district as part of BJP’s Maha Jan Sampark Abhiyan.

Sanjay Kumar said there were plans to open an Islamic centre in Hyderabad, something that should be opposed. Instead of ensuring employment for the youth of the Old City of Hyderabad, the AIMIM leaders were indulging in such acts.

In Bihar, the AIMIM won five seats with just 12 per cent of voters from the minority community. In Telangana, 80 per cent of voters are from the majority community, and at this rate, how many seats should the BJP be winning here?” he asked, urging all Hindu voters to back the BJP in the next elections.

He also called the Congress in the state a Kirana shop because those who win on Congress ticket go join the BRS after being bought up like groceries. On the ruling BRS, he said, “Before Telangana state was formed, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and his family had nothing but now they are worth thousands of crores of rupees. People are fed up with the BRS and KCR and are waiting to defeat them.”