BJP alone can fight MIM Laxman

​Hyderabad: BJP alone can take on the "communal" MIM, and other parties in Telangana unlike the ruling TRS, Congress and TDP, State BJP unit president K Laxman has said.

BJP alone can fight MIM. TRS, Congress, other parties, whenever they are in power, they share it with MIM. People of Telangana State know well that BJP alone can fight this communal, divisive politics of MIM. The TRS cannot do, neither Congress nor TDP," he said.
The MIM was against the formation of the State and now the TRS called the party its natural ally.

Now, TRS is very close to Majlis (MIM). They say it (MIM) is our natural ally. People of Telangana State are surprised. It is anti-Telangana party. It fought against the formation of Telangana State.

It stood as a stumbling block for the creation of Telangana State. "I don't know what made Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao come closer to MIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi and his party. Is it vote bank politics or for development of Telangana State, the BJP asked. People can understand," he said here.

Owaisi used to say the car (TRS election symbol) belonged to TRS but its steering is in his hands, Laxman claimed. Laxman dismissed the speculation of BJP and TRS coming close with the latter possibly joining the NDA government at the Centre.

Claiming that main opposition Congress and TDP had weakened in the State following defection of several MLAs to TRS, Laxman said BJP would like to emerge as a viable alternative to TRS.

He accused the TRS government of failing to deliver on its election promises, which included a two-bedroom house for poor, filling up one lakh government jobs and distributing three acres of land to poor.

Noting that the slogan of BJP is 'sab ka sath, sab ka vikas', Laxman said his party would like to take along all sections including minorities. It is only the BJP which nominated two minority leaders (Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and MJ Akbar) to the Rajya Sabha in the recent polls to the upper house, he added. (With agency inputs)