Owaisi said that Parliament had passed a resolution declaring India’s claim over PoK
Hyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday asked the Narendra Modi government at the Centre to not to confine itself to routine rhetoric of “Ghar mein ghus ke marenge” to avenge cross-border terrorism, but take possession of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. “Ghar mein ghus kar baith jana” (Take over PoK),” Owaisi urged the Centre.
Owaisi said that Parliament had passed a resolution declaring India’s claim over PoK. “If they have vacated the posts, enter and take their possession,” Owaisi said, when a reporter asked him about reports that Pakistan soldiers had allegedly fled their posts on the Line of Control. Owaisi asked why the Modi government did not take control over the areas that the neighbouring country used as terror launching pads during the surgical strikes of 2019.
He asked the Centre to take a firm stand to crush terrorism which had claimed the lives of many innocents. Owaisi said that a Telugu Pandit in Hyderabad regularly visited his office to mourn the loss of his young daughter in the Hyderabad blasts.
On the Centre announcing that it would undertake caste enumeration along with the general census, Owaisi demanded that reservations should cross threshold limit of 50 per cent, in proportion with the population of the marginalised sections. He said that it was an injustice to restrict reservations to the BC communities to 27 per cent. Owaisi asked the Modi government to disclose the timeline for conducting the caste census and asked whether it will take place before the Lok Sabha elections in 2029 to implement its findings. “The caste enumeration must find out developed castes, under-developed castes, developed castes among the forward castes, under-developed castes among the forward castes, status of Pasmanda Muslims and non-Pasmanda Muslims,” Owaisi said and recalled BSP leader Kanshiram’s statement that the reservations must be implemented in proportion to their population.
On the BJP’s charge that Muslims in Telangana were getting 10 per cent reservations from the Backward Classes communities quota though they constitute only 12 per cent of the state’s population, Owaisi asked why the BJP, which was in power in an alliance government in Andhra Pradesh, did not remove reservations for Muslims. The caste enumeration conducted by the Revanth Reddy government had found that the Backward Classes community comprised 56.32 per cent, and had passed a resolution to provide 42 to them, Owaisi pointed out.
