Addressing a gathering, the Hyderabad MP said that companies, who donate money, don't do it for charity. Owaisi claimed that the major political parties received money through the electoral bonds scheme.
Asaduddin Owaisi. (Twitter)
AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday, 16 March, alleged that the purchase of electoral bonds involves “give and take” and that all major parties, except his, have received funds through the scheme.
Addressing a gathering, the Hyderabad MP said that a company would not give money “for free”.
“When an owner of a big company gives money (purchase of electoral bonds) to the BJP, the Congress, the TMC, the BRS, the RJD and the Samajwadi Party, he will not give just like that,” he said in Hyderabad. The companies, who donate money, don’t do it for charity, he added.
“When they are giving (money), then Modi ji is giving something to them. When they are giving, all parties are saying ‘You give me, I will give you everything. You give me bond and take whatever you like,” Owaisi said.
Owaisi claimed that the BJP, the TMC, the Congress, the BRS, the BJD, the Samajwadi Party, the RJD, the Shiv Sena, the DMK, the NCP and the YSRCP received money through the electoral bonds scheme.
As per the data given by the State Bank of India to the Election Commission from 2018 to 2024, the BJP got ₹6,060 crore, the TMC got ₹1,610 crore, the Congress received ₹1,422 crore, and the BRS, ₹1,215 crore, Owaisi said.
“Names of all these parties have come. The name of your party (AIMIM) is not there in this. AIMIM did not receive a single bond. Whoever is giving the (bond) will be known as the buyer. They (parties) are selling themselves and they are buying. But, who is (called the) ‘B’ team in the entire country, it is Asaduddin Owaisi,” the AIMIM chief said.
“Modi ji took ₹6,000 crore and encashed it and put it in the party’s account. Now tell me who is taking money? Narendra Modi had said Na khaunga, na khane dunga (Will not eat, will not let others eat)’. I modified it a bit. Na khaunga, na khane dunga jab tak tum bond nahi diye mere ko (Will not eat, will not let others eat, until you give me a bond),” the AIMIM chief said.
Owaisi demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah should announce that the NPR (National Population Register) and the NRC (National Register of Citizens) will not be implemented in the country.
On the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), Owaisi reiterated that the CAA should be seen together with the NPR and the NRC, and added that the CAA was drafted on the basis of religion.
He said that he was never against granting citizenship to persecuted (minorities)– Hindus, Sikhs, Christians from Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Bangladesh.
“Amit Shah says citizenship of Muslims will not be taken away. Modi and Amit Shah should tell that NPR and NRC will never happen in the country. They will not say so, because they have a plan…they want to implement NPR-NRC and trouble us,” Owaisi said.
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