Mumbai: Asaduddin Owaisi, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Chief and Hyderabad MP asked Dalits, Muslims and Adivasis to come together and reject national parties in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Speaking at a rally of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi Sunday in Kalyan in the district, he said it was time for the "deprived" to hit back rather than continue "suffering" as was the case in the past 70 years.
The Vanchit Bhaujan Aghadi is an outfit floated by the AIMIM and the Prakash Ambedkar-led Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (BBM).
He said Babasaheb Ambedkar had laid down equal rights for all citizens of the country. Owaisi also took a dig at the Congress and the ruling BJP claiming that the two parties had got elected on the votes of the "deprived" classes but had only meted out injustice to them.
The AIMIM president said the country needed a "pehredar" (guard) rather than a "chowkidar" (watchman), a term Prime Minister Narendra Modi often uses to describe himself and his role.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi also came in for criticism from Owaisi who called him a "janeudhari" (wearer of the sacred thread).
The Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP said only parties like the one led by Prakash Ambedkar could do justice to the poor and downtrodden and not the Congress or leaders like PM Modi, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and NCP chief Sharad Pawar.
A few days after President Ram Nath Kovind announced Bharat Ratna to Mukherjee, RSS leader and social activist late Nanaji Deshmukh and late music maestro Bhupen Hazarika, the AIMIM chief claimed the country's highest civilian honour had only been bestowed on people from the "upper caste".
He pointed out that Dalit icon Babasaheb Ambedkar was given the Bharat Ratna as he deserved it and because he was the architect of the Constitution.
Addressing the rally, Prakash Ambedkar, grandson of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, called the RSS a terrorist organisation and criticised the right wing extremist outfit for worshipping arms.
"RSS is a terrorist organisation. Its chief Mohan Bhagwat worships arms and ammunition. I want to know why they need arms when they have police and the army", Prakash Ambedkar said.
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