Bihar Assembly Election 2020: Owaisi Addresses Rally, Flays RJD, Cong for Silence Over CAA

Bihar Assembly Election 2020: Owaisi Addresses Rally, Flays RJD, Cong for Silence Over CAA

Asaduddin Owaisi, the president of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), addressed a rally in poll-bound Bihar on Sunday afternoon and sought votes on behalf of the party’s state unit chief, Akhatrul Iman

He also took the opportunity to condemn both the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), who are part of the Grand Alliance (GA), or the mahagathbandhan, for their studied silence over the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019 and the National Register for Citizens (NRC).

“When you were holding protests against the CAA, 2019 and the NRC in Seemanchal, both the Congress and RJD neither extended their support nor did say anything. They had preferred to remain silent,” Owaisi alleged.

“Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and his party the Janata Dal (United) are sitting on the lap of the BJP and Mohan Bhagwat, the sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),” he further alleged.

Purnia, Kishanganj, Katihar and Araria districts comprise the Seemanchal, which has a total of 24 seats and a substantial Muslim population

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