Owaisi's Babri reminder to Muslim SP MPs on Akhilesh Yadav's Ayodhya visit plan

AIMIM chief Assaduddin Owaisi called on the Muslim leaders of the SamajwadI Party to question the proposed visit of Akhilesh Yadav to Ayodhya on December 12. He said that the Samajwadi Party MPs and MLAs should think about the fact that their fathers had gone to jail during the unrest after the Babri Masjid demolition before supporting their party chief's Ayodhya visit."Sholay ka dialogue toh nahin bolsakte ki 'tera kya hoga'. (Cannot narrate a dialogue of Sholay like 'what will happen to you now?'," Owaisi mockingly said.The AIMIM chief further used Mirza Ghalib's couplet to strengthen his point. "Kaaba kis munh se jaoge, Ghalib. Sharam tumko magar nahi aati. (With what face will you go to the Kaaba, Ghalib? You, however, feel no shame)," he said.MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, criticising Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav’s reported statement on Muslims, alleged that the SP has always played with the sentiments of the community. Owaisi and Yadav verbally clashed during Dussehra last month as well. While visiting jailed SP leader Mohammad Azam Khan in Rampur, Yadav was asked about the AIMIM chief to which he replied, "Even Ravana disguised himself for a day and abducted Sita, but here the disguise has been in place for years."Owaisi hit back, saying that the Samajwadi chief thinks every individual with a beard and a cap is like Ravana. Akhilesh Yadav's proposed Ayodhya visit has invited severe backlash from the BJP, which has called out the Samajwadi chief for his appeasement politics.UP BJP President Pankaj Chaudhary suggested that Yadav visit the shrine in Ayodhya on December 6 instead and apologise for the killing of 'kar sevaks' in 1990 during the Samajwadi rule in the northern state.December 6 is the anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1992.BJP MLC BJP MLC Subhash Yaduvansh also slammed Yadav, alleging that his party's government had ordered firing on kar sevaks and that those responsible for the incident were now talking about Sanatan Dharma. He suggested the SP chief take a dip in the River Saryu and apologise to the kar sevaks and their families before visiting the Ram Mandir.Uttar Pradesh will go to polls next year, with the Adityanath-led BJP aiming for a third term with Akhilesh Yadav and his INDIA allies striving for a wrest.- Ends