'I want to give you Rs 2 in alms': Owaisi hits out at Himanta over 'Miya' remark

NEW DELHI: AIMIM main Asaduddin Owaisi connected Tuesday launched a crisp onslaught connected Assam main curate Himanta Biswa Sarma implicit his arguable remarks connected "troubling Miya Muslims", calling them unconstitutional and divisive.Owaisi mocked the main minister, saying, "I privation to springiness you Rs 2 arsenic alms," and accused him of reducing law governance to prejudice and intimidation. In a lengthy response, Owaisi said India's Constitution guarantees equality and non-discrimination, careless of religion oregon community. "The Constitution says each are equal. No favoritism should beryllium done, whether it is simply a main curate oregon anyone else," helium said.

Owaisi alleged that Bengali-speaking Muslims successful Assam were being scapegoated for issues ranging from migration to rising prices. "If rootlike prices summation successful Assam, Miya Muslims are blamed. If idiosyncratic wants to vote, they are told to spell to Bangladesh," helium said, adding that specified rhetoric amounted to targeting a assemblage for governmental gain.The AIMIM leader's remarks came aft Sarma made statements encouraging enactment against "Miya Muslims" successful Assam.

Sarma said, "Trouble the Miya Muslims by immoderate means. If they look trouble, they volition spell from Assam ... We are straight against the Miya Muslims. We are not hiding anything."The comments triggered a governmental tempest successful the election-bound northeastern state, with absorption parties accusing the BJP of resorting to communal polarisation to consolidate votes. The BJP, however, has agelong maintained that its absorption successful Assam is connected addressing amerciable migration and protecting indigenous rights. Bengali-speaking Muslims person often been labelled “illegal infiltrators” successful governmental discourse, an contented that has remained cardinal to Assam’s electoral politics.