New Delhi: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday made a powerful pitch for quotas for Muslim ladies, flagging the alarmingly low illustration, in Parliament, of females belonging to the minority neighborhood.
The Hyderabad MP addressed a rally at Kishanganj in Bihar, the lone Muslim majority Lok Sabha seat within the state, the place the AIMIM’s provincial unit chief and MLA Akhtarul Iman is within the fray.
“The BJP-RSS falsely accuse the AIMIM of being in opposition to ladies’s participation in politics. As early as 2004, we had fielded a feminine candidate in Secunderabad. Peace be upon her,” mentioned Owaisi, referring to late chief Humera Aziz.
He added, “Our level is since Independence,17 Lok Sabha polls have been held within the nation however the variety of Muslim ladies who turned MPs has been nearly 20. So why not reservations for Muslim ladies.”
Owaisi, who’s an alumnus of the Lincoln’s Inn at London, and likes to be addressed with the prefix “barrister”, recounted the derision he confronted upon transferring an modification, in Lok Sabha, to the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam introduced by the Narendra Modi authorities.
“Speaker Om Birla mentioned to me you need to herald an modification however there may be hardly anyone to again you. I replied Allah is with me”, the AIMIM chief recalled.
His get together additionally performed a clip of Owaisi’s Kishanganj speech, with the related portion of Lok Sabha proceedings inserted, on social media.
“My argument is that Muslims and the backward courses collectively comprise about 65 per cent of the full inhabitants. We can not deprive ladies of this huge social section of their rights,” mentioned Owaisi.
“Our competition resonated with many OBC organisations. Their leaders got here to thank me, saying Owaisi sahib, solely you and your get together MP Imtiyaz Jaleel raised the matter of reservations for girls from backward courses,” he claimed.
Owaisi paid a go to to the tomb of Mohd Asrarul Haq, a former Kishanganj MP who had been related to the Congress, the Samajwadi Social gathering and the NCP, moreover having been a prime workplace bearer of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind.
The AIMIM has declared that it’ll contest over a dozen Lok Sabha seats in Bihar the place the full quantity is 40.
