Description
Mr. Owaisi also congratulated his KCR counterparts in Bihar and West Bengal. AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi praised K Chandrasekhara Rao, the prime minister of his home state of Telangana, which is preparing for parliamentary elections later this year. The Hyderabad MP was answering questions from reporters in Bihar's Kishanganj district, before concluding his tour of "Seemanchal", a densely populated but impoverished and flood-prone region of the state.
"I must say that KCR has a vision. And so far he has done something worthwhile during his tenure," Owaisi said on Sunday in response to a question about the prime minister's ambitions for regional satraps like Rao. . Mr. Owaisi also congratulated KCR's counterparts in Bihar and West Bengal, Nitish Kumar and Mamata Banerjee respectively.
"Telangana is a landlocked state. However, it has a very impressive gross domestic product. It ranked first in terms of the use of pumping equipment. It is still the second largest producer of fish," the AIMIM chief said. , whose party has seven deputies in the 119-member assembly.
Although the KCR's Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) party enjoys an outright majority, it faces a challenge in the upcoming elections with the BJP advancing and, according to many political experts, ready to replace Congress as the main opposition to Telangana.
Owaisi also criticized the Congress and its allies for "crying that democracy is in danger because of what happened in Maharashtra, but he looked the other way when our Bihar MPs were lured away."
AIMIM won five seats in the 2020 Bihar assembly polls and four of its MPs joined the RJD last year, with one even securing a cabinet spot.
Mr. Owaisi said, “We wanted an alliance with Mahagathbandhan in 2020, but they laughed at us… Our performance was there for all to see. We had only contested 10 seats. In 2025, we will field our candidates in 50 constituencies of the 243-member Bihar Assembly."
