Asaduddin Owaisi hits out at BJP for Taj Mahal remark

Lucknow/Hyderabad/ New Delhi: Responding to BJP’s UP legislator Sangeet Som’s comments questioning Taj Mahal’s place in history, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday asked if the government would tell tourists not to visit the monument. Mr Som also termed Mughal emperors Babur, Akbar and Aurangzeb “traitors” and said their names would be removed from the pages of history.

Lashing out at the BJP leadership, the Hyderabad MP asked whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi “will stop hoisting the “tricolour” at the Red Fort if in the BJP’s view it was among the monuments built by “traitors”. Mr Owaisi asked, “Will Modi and Yogi Adityanath tell tourists not to visit the Taj Mahal?”