In his address to the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi stated that no month in India passes without a threat to the lives of Muslims.
During the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address, Owaisi attacked the BJP-led centre on a number of issues, including the treatment of minorities in the country and the border dispute with China.
“An MP recently asked people to use knives for cutting vegetables but also throats. One more MP asked people to boycott the Muslim community. Gulbarga railway station’s colour was changed from green because it is the colour of Muslims. I want to ask the Narendra Modi govt if it would remove the green colour from the National flag?” he asked.
Owaisi also inquired whether the Modi government would prohibit the sale of watermelons due to their green colour. “The centre will ask people to buy oranges cultivated at its office in Nagpur,” he said taking a dig at both the RSS and the BJP.
Speaking on the centre’s Nari Shakti initiative, Owaisi said that Bilkis Bano would have found justice if she wasn’t a Muslim. “Bilkis Bano is fighting for twenty years…and since her name is Bilkis Bano, you don’t want to do her justice,” he said.
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In response to the BJP’s recent positive signal to Pasmanda Muslims, Owaisi has asked the saffron party to grant the community Dalit status. “You don’t want to do that. Don’t they have freedom of religion?” he asked.
“Sir I am a Musalman. This country is not possible without me. I am not a hostage or a prisoner of this country. I want the full rights of citizenship,” he remarked.
Owaisi also questioned when the Centre will provide the OBC status to the Surjapuri and Kulhaiya Muslims.
Owaisi expressed disappointment that Minorities were not mentioned in the President’s address, despite of being 19 percent of India’s population.
“According to the NSSO data, is it not true that twenty-five per cent of Muslim students drop out of education due to poverty? Is it also not true that in terms of literacy in children seven years and above, the least percentage is of Muslims? Is it not true that the Gross Attendance Ratio of Muslim students is the least among Muslims? Is it also not true that the least enrollment in schools is of Muslims? Is it not a fact that according to the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) data, the percentage of Muslims studying higher education has come down from 5 per cent to 4 per cent? Even after all this, there was no mention of Minorities in the President’s address,” he said.
The Hyderabad MP said that the budget allocated for Minorities was reduced by 40 per cent. “Narendra Modi’s government doesn’t want Muslim children to get stronger and support the nation. They want minorities to be prey to poverty and discrimination,” he added.
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