Samajwadi Party leader Abu Asim Azmi has challenged MNS chief Raj Thackeray amid the Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024. Challenging Raj Thackeray on vote jihad and the mosque loudspeaker issue, he said that if Raj is challenging so much, if he has the courage, then remove the police and enter our mosque and remove the loudspeaker, then see what he does not do.
On vote jihad politics, he said that before 2014, was there any attempt to remove the burqa of any girl? No. Muslims were not being tortured in the name of bull, there was no mob lynching. Poor Muslims were not beaten up. Muslims were not forced to say Jai Shri Ram. Not the Ulema but all the people of the country who believe in the Constitution of Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar, are going to work against them (Mahayuti). They cannot fool people now.
MVA, not the Muslim League
On the fatwa to vote for MVA, he said that MVA is not a Muslim League, it is not a party of Muslims. MVA has Congress, Sharad Pawar Sahab, and Uddhav ji. There are people in the country who are Indians, what is wrong if they are being supported? This is not a party of Muslims, how can those who persecuted us expect votes from us? How much will you misuse the name jihad? If people sitting on high posts like Prime Minister and Home Minister do such cheap politics then it is wrong. Every person has his vote bank, he has the right to ask for votes, so the people of Mahayuti should not be worried.
The challenge was given to Raj Thackeray.
On Raj Thackeray’s fatwa and loudspeaker statement, Abu Azmi said that in his lifetime, Raj Thackeray’s government would never come to Maharashtra. The government of such scoundrels cannot come to this country, this country is secular. No one can violate the law like this. He cannot enter a mosque and remove the loudspeaker. If you want a challenge, remove the police, and come to Mankhurd Shivajinagar, if any son of a mother enters a mosque and removes the loudspeaker, we will teach him a lesson. We never said that we would enter the temple and remove the loudspeaker, don’t talk such nonsense. Remember, a dying man will do anything.
Targeted Yogi-Modi
On Yogi’s statement that if we divide, we will be cut, he said that if we unite, we will be strong. If we unite, we will be noble. If we unite, we will strengthen India. These separatist people have to be removed from power quickly. Regarding Modi and Amit Shah’s rally, he said that these people are after Muslims. They do not have any issues of development. It is the MVA government that follows the footsteps of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. These people make the statue of Shivaji Maharaj, indulge in corruption, and the statue breaks.
The government took over the wakf land.
Abu Azmi said that Amit Shah says that if the MVA government comes, then like Karnataka, the farmers’ land will be given to the Waqf. To date, no government has been born in India after independence, which gives the farmers’ land to the Waqf. All this is nonsense. People sitting in such a high position are losing their direction. This is the land of the Waqf Board which our elders had given for orphanages and mosques. The government has occupied those lands and opened government offices on them. All these are fabricated things. This is just the politics of polarization. The central government is standing on just two crutches, if the crutches are removed then the government will fall with a thud.