Owaisi's party to contest Karnataka polls

November 29, 2017 10:10

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen will be contesting the 2018 Karnataka Assembly Elections, party chief Asaduddin Owaisi said in a formal announcement.

After an internal meeting with the Karnataka party unit at the headquarters in Hyderabad's Darussalam, Owaisi announced the decision and said, "If we are silent, our identity will be wiped out from Indian politics."

Owaisi further stated that both - the BJP and the Congress - were not different from each other in their political motives. "There is no difference between the BJP and the Congress. The Congress speaks about freedom of expression, but there is no freedom of expression in the Congress-ruled states. They are not allowing me to address a public meeting in Karnataka," Owaisi said. -- ANI

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