After Poll Tension: All Three Parties to Hold Meetings Today

With the polling completed for the byelections on 12 June, all the three major parties, Congress, YSR Congress and TDP are reeling under after-poll tension. The immediate political future of these parties would highly depend on the outcome of  these byelections. In this backdrop, all these parties have decided to hold strategy  meetings late on Thursday.

Basing on the results predicted by some of the exit polls on Tuesday evening, there is optimism in the Congress and the TDP that it could be a close contest and that they could secure a few seats, a confidence they did not have when the byelections were announced. The mood in the YSR Congress is also tense, as it is their future that would be the most impacted either for the better or for the worse depending on the number of seats they secure. At the same time, there is apprehension in the ruling party and the leading opposition party over a possible exodus in the wake of Jaganmohan Reddy putting up an impressive performance.

The meetings have been slated for later in the day as most of the political leaders including chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and TDP president Chandrababu Naidu will be pre-occupied with the wedding of Chiranjeevi's son and actor Ram Charan Tej on Thursday morning.  and the informal meetings are slated for later in the day. The YSR Congress leaders are meeting in the late afternoon, which the party working president Vijayamma and daughter Sharmila will attend. The meeting will take place after some of the family members including Jagan's wife Bharati meets Jagan, who is currently lodged in Chanchalguda Jail.

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.