Look Back In Denial

India바카라�s modern political history is malleable바카라�distorted by those ascending the electoral ladder to suit their narrative. It shouldn바카라�t surprise that the AIMIM is economical with historical facts too. As Asaduddin Owaisi바카라�s party began expanding its footprint beyond the Old City of Hyderabad, a taint persistently hurled at it was that it was born out of a Muslim supremacist, violently anti-Hindu, pro-Pakistan movement. Owaisi, who inherited the party in 2008 from his father, the late six-term MP Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, thought it fit to hyphenate his party from the old Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (MIM) that his grandfather, Abdul Wahed Owaisi, had received as an unusual bequest from the notorious Syed Qasim Razvi before the latter migrated to Pakistan. Abdul Wahed took over in 1958, revived it after a decade of inactivity caused by Razvi바카라�s incarceration following the Indian army바카라�s Operation Polo (September 1948) that paved the way for Hyderabad바카라�s annexation to the Indian Union.

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The AIMIM바카라�s website makes no mention of the period between 1927바카라�when the MIM was founded by Islamic leaders Maulvi Mahmood Nawaz Khan, Maulvi Pasha Hussaini etc under patronage of the Nizam with the agenda of maintaining the Asaf Jahi dynasty바카라�s hold on Hyderabad바카라�s Islamic monarchy바카라�and 1938, when Bahadur Yar Jung took over as president. The edited history maintains an obvious silence on what followed when the MIM leadership passed to Razvi. It is Razvi바카라�s stewardship of the MIM and its turbulent history that Owaisi has desperately tried to shrug off. The site makes no mention of Razvi바카라�s presidency and states the MIM 바카라�ceased to exist바카라� after September 1948; it doesn바카라�t say this was because of Razvi바카라�s incarceration and the government banning the MIM for the bloody mayhem it unleashed.

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Razvi, as historians have documented, was the leader of the Razakars, a self-styled Muslim militia patronised by the Nizam. Razvi and his Razakars, supported by the MIM, gained notoriety for terrorising Hyderabad바카라�s Hindus, whipping up religious sentiments among the Muslims prior to the princely state바카라�s accession to the Indian Union and lobbied with the Nizam to accede to Pakistan. Owaisi has repeatedly answered the taunts on that phase by saying the 바카라�Razakars left India for Pakistan, we stayed back바카라�.

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