BJP keeps winning because opposition is a failure: Owaisi

The BJP is winning elections consistently because the opposition is a failure (nakaam) and because it has consolidated the Hindu votes, Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has said, rejecting suggestions that he cuts into anti-Modi votes.

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“How can you put the blame on me, tell me?” Owaisi said in an interview to PTI Videos on Saturday.

“If I contest in Hyderabad, Aurangabad, Kishanganj and a few other seats in the 2024 Parliamentary elections and BJP gets 240 seats then am I responsible?” Owaisi said.

“BJP is coming to power because the opposition is a failure (nakaam). BJP is winning elections because it has consolidated almost 50 per cent of the Hindu vote,” he said, adding that attempts to blame him, and call him BJP’s B-Team are nothing but the opposition’s “hatred” for his party because it largely represents Muslims.

Opposition parties like the Congress have scoffed at Owaisi’s attempts to grow his All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party outside its stronghold of the Hyderabad region, saying he ends up benefitting the BJP by taking away a chunk of votes, mostly Muslims.