The president of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MP Asaduddin Owaisi hit at the BJP on Thursday over the issue of what he described as 'encounters'. Owaisi alleged that the BJP does "encounters in the name of religion." Owaisi was speaking at meeting in Telengana's Nizamabad.

The four-time MP, representing Hyderabad constituency in Lok sabha, asked whether "BJP will also shoot those who killed Junaid and Nasir?"