Liberate Hyderabad from ‘Nawab Nizam’ culture, says Union Home Minister Amit Shah

Hyderabad: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that the BJP wanted to liberate Hyderabad from the ‘Nawab Nizam’ culture and develop it as a modern city.

Addressing a news conference at the end of his day-long visit to campaign for Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections slated to be held on December 1, he said that the BJP also wanted to take Telangana and Hyderabad from “dynasty to democracy”.

The BJP leader, who conducted a roadshow and visited Bhagyalakshmi temple abutting Charminar, slammed both Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) for pursuing “family politics”.

“Be it Owaisi’s party or TRS, I want to ask whether in such a large state as Telangana you don’t get anybody outside your family. Is there nobody outside your family who is talented?” he said.

Shah said that the BJP wanted to take Hyderabad from corruption to transparency and from appeasement to equal opportunities.

“I want to assure the large section of people in Hyderabad who feel insulted that nobody will dare to treat you as second-class citizens,” he said.

He said that it was because of Sardar Patel that Telangana, Marathwada, and Hyderabad became part of India. He said there were some people who ran a campaign to merge these with Pakistan.

“Owaisi should respond as to who talked of merging Telangana with Pakistan,” he remarked when asked to comment on MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi’s allegation that the BJP was dividing people.

On Hyderabad MP’s question what was Shah doing when the Rohingyas, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis were illegally staying in Hyderabad, the Union Home Minister asked him to give in writing to deport them.

“When we take action, they raise hue and cry. Didn’t you see in Parliament? Let them give in writing that the Rohingyas and Bangladeshis be deported. Merely speaking in elections will not work. Who takes their side when we talk of deporting them? People know. They have seen it live on television,” he said.

Asserting that the BJP has no problem with TRS aligning with MIM, Shah dared Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao to openly have seat-sharing with MIM.”In a democracy, any party can tie up with anyone. But why this secret understanding? Why don’t you have the courage to openly say that you have electoral understanding with MIM.”

Claiming that the BJP has become the main opposition in Telangana, Shah said that in the next Assembly elections the BJP would definitely form the government. He remarked that KCR was also “helping BJP in this task by the manner in which he is running the government”..