MIM Owaisis’ arrests helped partry’s gain?

Hyderabad: Analysts report that Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) leader Akbaru-ddin Owaisi’s alleged hate speech in Nirmal in December 2012 and his succeeding arrest has probably ended in favouring result for the MIM in municipal elections in Telangana. According to them, Mr Akbaruddin and Mr Asaduddin Owaisis’ arrests in different cases had formed a sympathy wave among the Muslim voters in favour of the MIM in the municipal elections.

It is learnt that the citizens preferred to vote for the MIM candidates than the other Muslim candidates of the Congress and the TRS in various wards in Adilabad, Nirmal and Bhainsa municipalities where the MIM grabbed the victory.

In the earlier instances, Farooq Ahmed, Adilabad town president of the MIM, said that the Muslims strongly believed that the state government had arrested Mr Akbaruddin and Mr Asaduddin to damage the MIM and its leadership and to suppress Muslim voice which provoked hatred among the Muslims against the Congress, the TD and the BJP and sympathy towards the MIM. Also, both siblings - Akbaruddin and Asaduddin had alleged that the Congress government, led by the then Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, had got them arrested only to harass them.

While campaigning in Adilabad, in his speech during the municipal elections, Akbaruddin said he will be indebted everlastingly to the people of Adilabad for the shore up extended to him when he was in the district jail. He made it amention in his speech that they were jailed for fighting for Muslim rights and called upon all the Muslims to vote for the MIM to fight against communal forces.

Asaduddin has personally canvassed for municipal elections in Nirmal, Adilabad and Bhainsa municipalities and also in Bellampalli and Kagaznagar municipalities.