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Revoke Muslims' voting right: Shiv Sena
Mumbai, April 12
Voting rights of Muslims
should be revoked to stop vote-bank politics, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay
Raut has said in an article slamming AIMIM leaders Asaduddin and
Akbaruddin Owaisi for polarising the community.
In the article
published in the lastest issue of the Shiv Sena's mouthpeice Saamna,
Raut, also a Rajya Sabha member, addressed All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul
Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Owaisi as "Owaisi bhai from Hyderabad" and
said: "As long as Muslim votes are for sale, the community will remain
backward and its leaders will become rich."
In the article
written in Marathi, he said it was because of this that Shiv Sena
founder Balasaheb Thackeray had said "voting rights for Muslims should
be taken away".
"Owaisi bhai is doing politics of Muslim votes
and we don't know if it will benefit him or the community, but it will
harm the country," Raut said in the write-up.
The Shiv Sena
leader also said that earlier the Imam of Jama Masjid had assumed the
right to guide Muslim votes, now Owaisi is doing that, and added that it
is an "alarm bell" for Muslims.
Akbaruddin Owaisi, in a rally in Mumbai earlier this week, had targeted
Shiv Sena and dared Sena president Uddhav Thackeray to come to
Hyderabad.