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| | MIM pulls out of UPA | | | HYDERABAD, Nov 12 (Agencies):The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has withdrawn its support to the UPA Government at the Centre and to the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh.
Announcing this at a crowded press conference here on Monday, the Majlis president and Hyderabad MP, Asaduddin Owaisi said he had already faxed the letter announcing withdrawal of support to the President’s office. A similar letter would also be submitted to the Andhra Pradesh governor shortly.
The AIMIM is represented by its president Owaisi in the Lok Sabha, while it has seven members in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
The arrest of seven MIM legislators on Sunday over the contentious issue of Bhagya Laxmi temple abutting the historic Charminar and the continuing communal tensions in the State capital are the immediate reasons that seemed to have led the MIM to sever its ties with the Congress.
Owaisi launched a broadside against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government accusing it of being ‘indecisive’ and ‘pandering’ to the ‘sangh parivar activists’. The MIM chief maintained that the Congress government has turned anti-people and anti-minority in the recent times.
Attacks against the muslims have been increasing from 2010 onwards and despite being alerted, the government was doing nothing to stop them, Owaisi alleged.
“Our first priority is to bring down the Government, expose its mis-governance, anti-people and anti-minority policies”, Owaisi declared as a huge crowd that gathered at Darussalam, the MIM headquarters, cheered.
He parried a direction answer to a question whether the MIM would join hands with the YSR Congress Party, but left sufficient indications of the party’s thinking. “Jagan Reddy is my friend. Kiran Reddy was my friend”, he replied and hastened to add “let the elections be announced and then we will take a call. Even Kejriwal’s party could also be there [for consideration of alliance]”. |
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