Modi govt 'running away' from debate on India-China border crisis: Owaisi

AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday lit into the NDA government at the Centre over the IndiaChina border row and sought to know why it was running away from a discussion in Parliament on the issue if it has nothing to hideAddressing reporters here he said It is completely bluster and bluff If the Modi government has nothing to hide why is it running away from a debate in ParliamentHe was responding to a query about External Affairs Minister S Jaishankars reported comments on the IndiaChina border dispute in an interview to a news agencyIt is a fact that the NDA government does not want to debate on the Chinese PLA Army occupying 2000 sq km of land in Depsong and Demchok he claimed is he Jaishankar accepting that the Prime Minister misled the nation by saying na koi ghusa hai na koi ghusega the Hyderabad MP askedAlso readMumbai BEST deploys 297 buses on routes affected by withdrawal of CNG busesCiting a research paper submitted at the annual police meet held in Delhi in January last he said the Indian army has lost access to 26 out of 65 patrolling points along the LACHow can the External Affairs Minister forget the paper presented in the DGPs conference Owaisi askedBasically we have not got the status quo ante which was there before 2020 June or JulyOwaisi accused the NDA government of being scared of truth and said a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots had to be banned by itHitting out at former Rajasthan Deputy CM Sachin Pilot the Hyderabad MP charged that the Congress leader took the help of the BJP when he wanted to become chief minister of that stateHe Pilot wanted to become the chief minister and he took the help of BJP The whole world knows about it He brought his group MLAs and he was supported promoted encouraged by the BJP He was not successful in achieving that that is true he saidOwaisi further asserted that AIMIM has been consistently fighting the BJP on ideological groundsReferring to the killing of two Rajasthan men in Haryana recently the AIMIM chief said Pilot could not utter the names of the deceased Junaid and Naseer and wanted to know what would be the formers reaction if those belonging to his own community were killed the same wayOwaisi took AICC chief Mallikarjun Kharges comments that an alliance led by the Congress would come to power at the Centre next year with a pinch of salt saying there are several internal squabbles within the grand old partyIt would be known in 2024 We cannot say anything now he saidIn 2019 the Congress and BJP were in direct contest in 186 Lok Sabha seats and the former could win only 16 seatsTheir partys senior leader lost in Amethi Owaisi saidHe also recalled the electoral failures of Congress in Telangana Maharashtra and Delhi Assembly polls despite being in power in those states onceOn Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khans alleged remarks in support of uniform civil code Owaisi said the Governor unfortunately is behaving as a ruling party memberI am not denying that he has no right to say But the Governors post conventionally the Governors do not interfere in the promotion of the ruling partys agenda or politics That is what he has been doingClaiming that triple talaq has not done justice to Muslim women he quesionted why Khan cannot talk about the Hindu undivided tax rebate condemn the love jihad laws and discuss the religious conversion laws passed by BJPThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever