GG News Bureau
Patna, 20th March. Asaduddin Owaisi, the leader of the AIMIM, praised K Chandrasekhara Rao, the Chief Minister of his home state of Telangana, which is set to hold assembly elections later this year.
The Hyderabad MP was responding to journalist questions in Bihar’s Kishanganj district before wrapping up his tour of “Seemanchal,” the state’s densely populated but impoverished and flood-prone region.
“I must say KCR has a vision. And he has done something worthwhile during his tenure, so far,” said Owaisi on Sunday in reply to a question about Prime Ministerial ambitions of regional satraps like Rao.
Owaisi also praised KCR’s counterparts in Bihar and West Bengal, Nitish Kumar and Mamata Banerjee, respectively.
“Telangana is a landlocked state. Yet it has a very impressive gross state domestic product. It used to rank the highest in terms of use of pump sets. It is still the second highest producer of fisheries,” said the AIMIM Chief, whose party has seven MLAs in the 119-strong assembly.
Although KCR’s Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has a landslide majority, it faces a challenge in the upcoming elections, with the BJP making inroads and, according to many political analysts, tipped to replace the Congress as Telangana’s main opposition.
Owaisi also lambasted the Congress and its allies for “crying democracy is in danger over what happened in Maharashtra but looking the other way when our MLAs in Bihar were lured away”.
The AIMIM won five seats in the 2020 Bihar assembly elections, and four of its MLAs joined the RJD last year, with one of them being appointed to the cabinet.
Owaisi said, “We wanted an alliance with Mahagathbandhan in 2020, but they derided us… Our performance was there for all to see. We had contested only 10 seats. In 2025, we will field our candidates in 50 constituencies of the 243-strong Bihar assembly”.
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