All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said that PM Narendra Modi never speaks on the issue of hike in fuel prices and that of China “sitting in Ladakh”.
Addressing a gathering, Asaduddin Owaisi said, “PM Modi never speaks on two things — rise in petrol and diesel prices and China sitting inside our territory in Ladakh.”
Owaisi’s remarks came in the backdrop of rising fuel prices which were further hiked by ₹35 paise a litre on Sunday. While the price of petrol rose to its highest-ever level of ₹105.84 a litre in Delhi, the prices in Mumbai were ₹111.77 per litre. According to reports, the auto fuel was costing a third more than the rate at which aviation turbine fuel (AFT) is sold to airlines. Meanwhile, the cost of diesel in Mumbai was ₹102.52 a litre and in Delhi, ₹94.57.
“PM is afraid of speaking on China,” he alleged. Further, commenting on Army personnel who were killed during different operations against terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, Owaisi said, “Nine of our soldiers died in J-K, and India will be playing T20 match with Pakistan on October 24?”
Owaisi also targeted PM Modi for allowing the Indian cricket team to play T20 matches with Pakistan at a time when “Islamabad continues to play T20 with the lives of Indians in Kashmir”. “When our soldiers died in Jammu and Kashmir, we were playing a T20 cricket match with Pakistan,” he said.
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Asaduddin Owaisi, while talking about the series of targeted civilian killings in Kashmir, said that is it a failure of the BJP-led Centre. “Poor workers of Bihar are being killed, targeted killing is being done, what is the Intelligence Bureau and (Union Home Minister) Amit Shah doing? This is a failure of the Centre,” he said.
On the promises made by the Modi government to bring changes in J&K, Owaisi claimed that the abrogation of Article 370 has not changed the situation in the Union Territory.
(With inputs from ANI)
