BJP, Allies Winning Bihar Due To Lalu Yadav's Party: Asaduddin Owaisi

BJP, Allies Winning Bihar Due To Lalu Yadav's Party: Asaduddin Owaisi

Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi whose AIMIM has formed a separate front with former union minister Devendra Prasad Yadav for Bihar elections, dismissed charge of fighting the state polls to help BJP and said rather its because of the RJD that the saffron party-led NDA has been winning in the state.

Mr Owaisi also hit out at the Congress, saying in Maharashtra it contested polls with All India Majlis-eIttehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) but later joined hands with Shiv Sena "demolishers of the Babri mosque" to form a coalition government in the western state.

"Congress shall not teach us secularism," the Hyderabad MP told PTI-Bhasha in an interview in Patna.

Mr Owaisi left Patna Sunday after spending two days during which he discussed strategy of his front for the state elections.

Making a scathing attack on the RJD for dubbing him "vote katua" (spoiler) of secular votes, the AIMIM chief asked how his party was responsible for their complete rout in the 2019 general election in Bihar which it claims as its "garh" (fortMr Owaisi and Mr Yadav, who is heading Samajwadi Janata Dal (D), have formed UDSA (United Democratic Secular Alliance) for October-November state polls.PTI