PM Narendra Modi (L) and Asaduddin Owaisi (R).
Credit: PTI photos
During a rally in Bihar's Kishanganj, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi made a big statement over the Waqf Bill, alleging that the PM Modi-led government introduced it to "snatch away" mosques and other sacred places of Muslims.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought the Waqf Bill, not with any bona fide intentions, but to snatch away masjids, idgahs and qabristans. He did not realise that these properties belonged to Allah and no one else," Owaisi said.
"God willing, Modi will never succeed in his unholy intentions (naapaak mansube)," he added while stating the Muslims would continue to pray at their religious sites.
The Hyderabad MP not only took a dig at PM Modi, but he also pointed fingers at the BJP-RSS and Bihar 'mahagathbandhan' parties.
"Places considered holy by the believers in Allah will not fall into the hands of BJP-RSS," he said at the rally.
"Since Independence, Muslims of the country have been supporting a party that claimed to be secular... For long, our votes have been sought in the name of stopping the BJP from coming to power. But the time has come for us to realise that we cannot indefinitely carry this burden on our shoulders like coolies," Owaisi was quoted in a PTI report.