Gopinath Munde to Meet BJP Bigwigs

Senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde has kept the party leadership guessing about his game plan with the announcement that he would decide his course of action after talks with BJP bigwigs on Saturday. Munde has been sulking for over two weeks over his differences with BJP president Nitin Gadkari.

Gopinath Munde on Friday told mediapersons that he is "deeply pained" by the developments in the BJP and he will convey his anguish to party seniors in New Delhi. "I will decide on my next move after I meet my party leaders," Munde said on Friday. The leaders he referred to are Gadkari, L K Advani, Venkaiah Naidu (in charge of the party's organizational affairs in Maharashtra), and state BJP president Sudhir Mungantiwar.

The Munde camp is willing to broker peace with Gadkari if Mungantiwar steps down as Maharashtra BJP chief to make way for a Munde loyalist. While the Gadkari camp thinks that the crusty OBC leader and his intermittent pressure tactics should be ignored in order to maintain party discipline, Munde's supporters claim the BJP central leadership is keen on cutting to size mass leaders such as Munde, Narendra Modi and Vasundhara Raje.
 

 

Modi Is Not Our PM: Owaisi

MIM is a recognized state political party based in the Indian state of Telangana, with its head office in the old city of Hyderabad, which has its roots in the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen founded in 1927. Unlike most of the regional and national level parties, MIM party leaders ‘fight’ only for the well-being of Muslims, whereas no other party has such communal feelings. In their each and every speech, MIM leaders speak only about Muslims. If these leaders are here to fight for Muslims, then why there are no development works are happening in old city area for decades. Akbaruddin Owaisi faced criticism for making hate remarks on Narendra Modi and Hindus. Recently, his elder brother Asaduddin Owaisi made some notorious annotations. In a one-on-one debate between BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi on the topic of demonetization in a popular Hindi channel, the former left no stone unturned in exposing the latter’s communal designs. Owaisi claimed how most of the Muslim community still remains unbanked and that demonetization has caused severe inconvenience to Muslims. He even went on to say that ATM’s in Muslim-dominated areas weren’t fed enough money. He indirectly alleged that the Modi government hadn’t done anything for Muslims. Even after being pressurized Owaisi didn’t call Narendra Modi as his Prime Minister. He went on said, “Your Prime Minister…” On the other hand, Sambit spoke wisely and called Owaisi a leader of small stature because he talked only of Muslims. He said that no area was Muslim or Hindu and that all areas belonged to India. Owaisi was constantly quoting an RBI report, to which Sambit challenged him to show where the RBI had used the word ‘Muslim’. Sambit even said that if a Muslim leader speaks of Muslims it’s not an issue, but the moment a VHP leader speaks of Hindus people go crazy accusing them of imposing the Hindutva ideology. The most amazing of his counters was to Owaisi’s claims of Muslims not having been brought into the banking system. Sambit said that when banks or ATMs are to be opened in Muslim areas leaders like Owaisi shout that banking is un-Islamic and that Muslims should refrain from it! This video of debate between Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi is going viral in social media.