Hyderabad: MIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday alleged that the BJP was systematically focusing on issues of triple talaq and Ram temple at Ayodhya with an eye on the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections as it was insecure and had nothing positive to talk about.
Interacting with the media at the MIM party office, the MP said that the ‘insecure’ BJP has no positive agenda for the states going to polls and hence was raking up the Ram Mandir and triple talaq issue.
Criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks on triple talaq, Mr Owaisi said that the Prime Minister wants to make the two issues as the party’s core agenda ahead of the UP elections.
“Around 7.36 crore Muslim couples in the country are not divorced. Hardly 1 per cent of Muslims opted for ‘talaq’. Modi is making this a tool for political gains in view of the forthcoming elections,” the MP said
Mr Owaisi questioned why the PM was not speaking on removal of all marriage laws in Goa and giving agriculture land to all poor women, including Muslims, in UP, and about extending reservations to Muslims.
“Why is Modi not speaking about polygamy among Hindus and why are only Muslims being targeted?” the MP asked. He also accused the BJP-led NDA government of deviating from secularism.
