Hyderabad MP and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has vehemently criticised the RSS and the BJP leadership over the India-Pakistan cricket match following the Pahalgam terror act, pointedly asking the regime what the price of the lives of 26 Indian citizens was.
Owaisi made the comments at a gathering late last night, at Darussalam on the occasion of Milad-un-Nabi. He said, while Pakistan was always a failed state, why can’t the chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh and Assam, who often make absurd statements against the minorities, forcefully say that there should not be any cricket match played between India and Pakistan? He reminded the Prime Minister of his own words that blood and water cannot flow together, and talks and terrorism cannot be held together.
“They (BJP) deliver big lectures on nationalism. When it came to the cricket match, you were run out. Not run out, you were stumped. I am standing with the families of the 26 people. We stood by them yesterday, today and will stand by them forever… When we have a Prime Minister with a 56-inch chest, how can this cricket match take place?”
The AIMIM president recalled how 26 people were killed just for their religion and then pointedly asked, “I am asking the RSS and BJP, tell me what is the value of the lives of 26 Indian citizens?”
He also took a dig at those supporting the NDA government’s decision to go ahead with the match.
Attacking Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for his support of the match, Owaisi said today, “This man was threatening civil war in India over the Babri Masjid issue. He has converted into a peacenik now. Instead of Trump, he can apply for the Nobel Peace Prize. God save India from such nationalists.”
The AIMIM leader also alleged that the BJP has made changes to the NCERT syllabus, blaming the Muslims for the Partition. He claimed that Savarkar was the first one to raise the demand for Partition and Mountbatten and the then Congress government should be held responsible for it.