UP Elections 2022: Owaisi Has Nothing To Lose, Everything To Gain

Speech after speech in UP, he projects Babu Singh Kushwaha of Bhagidari Parivartan Morcha as Chief Minister, leaving deputy chief ministership for a Muslim candidate. He says it is not the last time he is in the UP. 바카라�I have come to UP the first time but not the last time. I will come again and again,바카라� he says, thus slowly Owaisi is projecting as AIMIM pan India party.
 
In the run-up to the election, Owaisi, was a regular visitor to the state, holding meetings. In almost all his speeches before and during the present election campaign, Owaisi has hit out at both the BJP and the SP and repeatedly says the SP doesn바카라�t want an 바카라�independent leadership of Muslims in UP바카라�. He argues that since both secular and Hindu rightwing parties do have not anything for Muslims, why a Muslim party or a Muslim leader shouldn바카라�t lead them.

 
 바카라�If you ask baba (Yogi), he says Owaisi is promoting the Talibani mindset in the Uttar Pradesh. If you ask Akhilesh whether Muslim women should have the right to wear Hijab if they wish so, Akhilesh will say I didn바카라�t hear it. How long you will shower Akhilesh with perfume. Shower it on us, we will spread its fragrance throughout the country,바카라� Owaisi said in his recent speech at Kannauj district.  
바카라�Once I leave the venue, the SP workers will come to you to tell you Owaisi바카라�s speech might have made you emotional and it will benefit BJP. Do tell Samajwadi Party how Akhilesh바카라�s wife lost in 2019 when we were not even in the fray. Your vote is not going to the BJP but it shows Akhilesh Yadav바카라�s workers are enjoying tea in Modi바카라�s lap.바카라�
 
바카라�Defeat SP and the BJP, and strengthen Owaisi and Kushwaha.바카라�
 
Deoband Assembly constituency, the seat of the top Islamic seminary of Darul Uloom, has been at the centre of the high-pitched battle between the ruling BJP and opposition parties ever since Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath laid the foundation of the Anti-Terrorism Squad here. Muslims see it as a move to divide the electorate.
 
Of the approximately 3 lakh voters in the Deoband constituency, around 1.2 lakh are estimated to be Muslims. Despite having a massive Muslim population, the Deoband has gone to the BJP in the 2017 Assembly elections. The BJP바카라�s Brijesh Singh Rawat defeated BSP바카라�s Majid Ali by 29,400 votes. It went to fresh elections on February 14.
 
Most of the Muslims and parties opposed to the BJP blame the AIMIM for dividing the Muslim votes to favour the ruling party.
The Samajwadi Party, which has seemingly enjoyed a monopoly over the Muslim votes so far, has withdrawn Maviya Ali in the constituency and instead fielded Kartikey Rana, a Rajput.
 
The SP candidate Kartikey Rana has dismissed the AIMIM in recently held elections, calling it the 바카라�Vote-katwa and B-Team바카라� of the BJP.
 
바카라�No one takes AIMIM seriously as everyone knows it is the B-Team of the BJP,바카라� Kartikey says.
 
AIMIM has fielded Umair Masoodi from the prominent Masoodi family of Deoband. His father, Masood Madani, is a political figure in the area who had enjoyed a ministerial position in the Uttarakhand government. His association with Mahmood Madani of the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind and Arshad Madani, who is the principal seminary of Darul Uloom, is not lost on anyone despite claims that both families have severed ties.
 
At a time when the right-wing forces propagate the Muslim population is growing and one day a Muslim would be Prime Minister, Owaisi doesn바카라�t hesitate to add some fodder to their imagined fear.  바카라�I may not be alive to see this, but one day a woman wearing hijab will become the prime minister of this country,바카라� he says.
 
He knows that Muslims, who make up 19 per cent of UP바카라�s population, are likely to be a decisive factor in around 60-70 seats, where their population is between 35 to 50 per cent. That is why the SP calls him BJP바카라�s B-team but he doesn바카라�t shy away from responding to the charges. He sarcastically dismisses the SP criticism, saying the SP needs votes of Muslims and backwards castes but not them.
바카라�The SP wants that the minority should lay the red carpet for it, take batons for it and Akhilesh Yadav should earn benefits of these sacrifices. This will not happen,바카라� he adds. And his next target is the BJP. He says even though the BJP talks about Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, its Chief Minister Baba has supported only his tribe. 바카라�And in the same way, when Samajwadi Party forms the government in the UP, in the name of Samajwad, the party does parivarvad (nepotism) only. That is why you have chance and opportunity.바카라�
In his latest address in Kannauj district of Uttar Pradesh, while seeking votes for Bhagidari Parivartan Morcha, he went further saying if there would a blessing of the people of UP, the state will have Bhagidari Parivartan Morcha Chief Minister and his name will be Babu Singh Kushwaha. 바카라�We have also decided there will be three deputy chief ministers including one from minority and the other two from backward classes,바카라� he says and the crowd cheers.
But perhaps realism dawns on him soon. In the next sentence, he spells out his motives for coming to Uttar Pradesh. 바카라�If All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen has come to the UP, we have not come for politics or business. I have come here with the blessing of God. I will be coming here as I have prayers of people. And my motive to come to UP is that you people should be made leaders, you should get your due, when we talk about social justice, we mean to say, we should get our share in the politics, in education, in jobs and also even in contractors.바카라�
바카라�But the BJP and the SP doesn바카라�t want to give any share to the minorities and the backwards castes.바카라�
With Babu Singh Kushwaha on his side, he says that he has got the platform to raise his voice against the oppressed and for the oppressed. To lift the mood of people, he brings Kushwaha back into discourse saying if Yogi and Modi will be defeated in the UP, it won바카라�t be Akhilesh who will defeat them, it will be Babu Singh Kushwaha.  바카라�Owaisi and Babu Singh Kushwaha have joined their hearts. They are at one stage. Now you have to join together and make them win in the polls. So that we will take the battle of social justice forward in the UP,바카라� he says.
Owaisi argues that for the backwardness of the Muslim community all parties who ruled the UP from Samajwadi Party to Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party to the Bharatiya Janata Party바카라�s rule are responsible. 바카라�In UP minority Muslims are most backward, less landholding is with Muslims, educationally Muslims are most backward. When our community is most backward what Samajwad and sab ka vikas, the SP and the BJP is talking about. In India poor doesn바카라�t get their right by begging but by fighting. I don바카라�t care about my life. The oppressors fired bullets thinking  Owaisi will die. Oppressors will fire again but as along my God wishes me alive I will be alive. Four rounds of fire will not silence me. If it would have killed me, you would have carried forward my message,바카라� Owaisi says as the mood turns emotional.
바카라�A Minister went to the family of a person who fired at me. Why they are in love with those who opened fire? Is it the way to fight against Mafia Raj? I swear by my God and Prophet (PBUH) I pledged in the Parliament I don바카라�t need security, my Allah will save me,바카라� he said.
바카라�They sent their Minister to the family of one who fired at me and then say my life is under threat.바카라� 
Owaisi asks Muslim women if they wear Hijab and Naqaab, they must wear them with pride.
 바카라�It is our constitutional right. Whether I see that day or not, but that girl who was shouted at for wearing Hijab one day she will become Prime Minister of the country,바카라� Owaisi says.