Rahul Gandhi gives big statements, I challenge him to contest against me from Hyderabad: AIMIM's Asaduddin Owaisi

All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi has challenged Congress MP Rahul Gandhi to contest 2024 Lok Sabha elections against him from Hyderabad and not from Wayanad. Addressing a public gathering, Owaisi, Lok Sabha MP from Hyderabad, also said the Babri Masjid, in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, was demolished under the regime of Congress. “I am challenging your leader (Rahul Gandhi) to contest elections from Hyderabad and not Wayanad. You keep giving big statements, come to the ground and fight against me,” the AIMIM leader said. “People from Congress will say a lot of things, but I am ready… Babri Masjid and Secretariat’s mosque were demolished under the Congress regime,” Owisi added. In Telangana, the Congress and AIMIM are at loggerheads with both the parties eyeing to win the state’s Assembly elections that are scheduled to be held later this year. Addressing Vijayabheri Sabha in Telangana’s Tukkuguda earlier this month, Rahul Gandh claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), and AIMIM are working in unison in the southern state and that his party is fighting against this troika. “In Telangana, the Congress party is not fighting against BRS but with BRS, BJP and AIMIM combined. They call themselves different parties but they are working together unitedly,” Gandhi had said. The Wayanad MP had also claimed that there are no CBI-ED cases against Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao or AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi since Prime Minister Narendra Modi considers them his “own people”. Ahead of the polls in Telangana, the Congress has announced its “six guarantees” which it says will be fulfilled if they are voted to power. With inputs from PTI