AP By Polls: Lagadapati to Campaign in Parakala

Congress MP from Vijayawada Lagadapati Rajagopal is daring to campaign in Parkal assembly constituency in Warangal district, the nerve centre of Telangana movement, on Friday. It is for the first time that Lagadapati is stepping into the Telangana region ever since the revived movement for separate state broke out in 2009. Since then, Lagadapati has been openly campaigning against the Telangana.

 

 

In this backdrop, it is definitely a daring step on the part of Lagadapati to decide to campaign for the Congress in Parkal. He might have thought nobody would bother about his campaign in Parkal as the focus is mostly on the possible arrest of YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.

However, the party leadership is learnt to have given him the brief not to speak against Telangana and refer to the matter in any manner. He is expected to confine his speech only to attack Jagan. Yet, the police are not taking any chances and have tightened the security in Parkal in the wake of Lagadapati’s campaign.
 

Modi Is Not Our PM: Owaisi

MIM is a recognized state political party based in the Indian state of Telangana, with its head office in the old city of Hyderabad, which has its roots in the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen founded in 1927. Unlike most of the regional and national level parties, MIM party leaders ‘fight’ only for the well-being of Muslims, whereas no other party has such communal feelings. In their each and every speech, MIM leaders speak only about Muslims. If these leaders are here to fight for Muslims, then why there are no development works are happening in old city area for decades. Akbaruddin Owaisi faced criticism for making hate remarks on Narendra Modi and Hindus. Recently, his elder brother Asaduddin Owaisi made some notorious annotations. In a one-on-one debate between BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi on the topic of demonetization in a popular Hindi channel, the former left no stone unturned in exposing the latter’s communal designs. Owaisi claimed how most of the Muslim community still remains unbanked and that demonetization has caused severe inconvenience to Muslims. He even went on to say that ATM’s in Muslim-dominated areas weren’t fed enough money. He indirectly alleged that the Modi government hadn’t done anything for Muslims. Even after being pressurized Owaisi didn’t call Narendra Modi as his Prime Minister. He went on said, “Your Prime Minister…” On the other hand, Sambit spoke wisely and called Owaisi a leader of small stature because he talked only of Muslims. He said that no area was Muslim or Hindu and that all areas belonged to India. Owaisi was constantly quoting an RBI report, to which Sambit challenged him to show where the RBI had used the word ‘Muslim’. Sambit even said that if a Muslim leader speaks of Muslims it’s not an issue, but the moment a VHP leader speaks of Hindus people go crazy accusing them of imposing the Hindutva ideology. The most amazing of his counters was to Owaisi’s claims of Muslims not having been brought into the banking system. Sambit said that when banks or ATMs are to be opened in Muslim areas leaders like Owaisi shout that banking is un-Islamic and that Muslims should refrain from it! This video of debate between Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi is going viral in social media.