New Delhi: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday made a robust pitch for quotas for Muslim girls, 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 against women’s participation in politics. As early as 2004, we had fielded a female candidate in Secunderabad. Peace be upon her,” stated Owaisi, referring to late chief Humera Aziz.
He added, “Our point is since Independence,17 Lok Sabha polls have been held in the country but the number of Muslim women who became MPs has been just about 20. So why not reservations for Muslim women.”
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 shifting an modification, in Lok Sabha, to the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam introduced by the Narendra Modi authorities.
“Speaker Om Birla said to me you want to bring in an amendment but there is hardly anybody to back you. I replied Allah is with me”, the AIMIM chief recalled.
His occasion 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 classes together comprise about 65 per cent of the total population. We cannot deprive women of this vast social segment of their rights,” stated Owaisi.
“Our contention resonated with many OBC organisations. Their leaders came to thank me, saying Owaisi sahib, only you and your party MP Imtiyaz Jaleel raised the matter of reservations for women from backward classes,” 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 Party and the NCP, apart from 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 entire quantity is 40.
