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Cong terms MIM a party sans ideology
The Congress took on former ally Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) on the third day of its constituency-level meetings held in parts of old city, considered to be an MIM bastion. Addressing a meeting in Yakutpura, former Deputy Chief Minister Damodara Rajanarsimha described the MIM as a party without any clear ideology or principles. He said it only craved for power, while compromising its own values.
It warns MIM against falling prey to TRS machinations
Hyderabad: The Congress took on former ally Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) on the third day of its constituency-level meetings held in parts of old city, considered to be an MIM bastion. Addressing a meeting in Yakutpura, former Deputy Chief Minister Damodara Rajanarsimha described the MIM as a party without any clear ideology or principles. He said it only craved for power, while compromising its own values.
He questioned as to why the party was maintaining silence on the issue of 12 percent reservation to Muslims, while claiming to be champions of their rights. He said the party remained afloat only because of the Congress and now it allied with the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), whose leader could not be trusted.
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For now, the MIM might be enjoying the partnership, but after six months when the TRS would ally with the BJP, it would not have an option, but to snap ties with the TRS. “For K Chandrashekar Rao, the achievement of Telangana would be complete only when his daughter Kavitha becomes a Union Minister,” he said.
While Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) working president, Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, who spoke in Charminar constituency, called upon the party cadre to fight against the communal forces. He made it clear that the Congress would not join hands with any party, be it the MIM or any other party to fight out in old city.
According to him, the MIM, which has joined hands with TRS, will be playing into the hands of BJP. He cautioned the MIM that Chandrashekar Rao partnered it with the sole intention of bagging maximum seats during GHMC elections, for controlling the city.
He would, later on, tie up with the BJP for getting a ministerial berth for his daughter in the Centre, he said and added that the Congress had announced 4 per cent reservations to Muslim minority the moment the Congress came into power and implemented it.
The Leader of Opposition in Legislative Council and Greater Hyderabad Congress Committee (GHCC) in-charge Mohammed Ali Shabbir, who spoke in Nampally constituency, said the MIM, which claimed to be the champion of Muslims and Urdu, had remained silent on both the issues. The MIM also did not pressurise the TRS government for ordering CBI probe into the Alair encounter, in which five Muslim under-trials were killed by the police.
