Asaduddin Owaisi: India’s first Muslim prime minister will be a woman in a hijab
ALSO READ: Can BJP's Madhavi Latha dislodge 4-time MP Asaduddin Owaisi in Hyderabad? So in Uttar Pradesh, we are part of PDM Nyay Morcha, which is a special Dalit and Muslim grouping, and headed by Pallavi Patel of Apna Dal (Kamerawadi). In Bihar, as you rightly said, we're contesting but you have to add Jharkhand also, where we will contest in probably one or two seats. We're very confident that our party president of Bihar and MLA, Mr.
Akhtar Akhtarul Iman will win the election. Aurangabad and Hyderabad go to the polls on May 13 and we are confident that we will continue our winning spree. In the remaining Parliament segments of Maharashtra, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, I will campaign and try our level best to ensure that our candidates win.
What we hear from the ground … I'm not a data cruncher, but people are voting on the lines of caste, people are voting because of lack of employment opportunities and price rise. Of course, there are other reasons also. These are the three-four important issues and also wherever minorities are there, they feel that BJP has completely made them invisible.
This so- called secular INDIA alliance is very reluctant to give tickets to the Muslim minority. The classic examples are in Maharashtra, which has 48 Lok Sabha seats. Not a single Muslim has been made a candidate.
That has been the case in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, New Delhi. And this is a huge cause of concern because in a representative form of democracy, if Muslims are not even being made candidates to contest elections, then of course, their representation in the lower house of the parliament will definitely come down. Will that be representing the pluralism and diversity of this country? I don't think so.
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