Owaisi urges non-NDA parties to address their shortcomings

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday thanked the people of Bihar for “ensuring the success” of party's candidates in five Assembly constituencies, and urged non-NDA parties to introspect. Owaisi, who extensively campaigned in Bihar in support of his party candidates, said non-NDA parties should try to address their shortcomings instead of assuming voters would automatically favour them.

AIMIM accepted people’s verdict in Bihar, he said, congratulating Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his victory in the Assembly polls.

Addressing reporters here, he said: “I am grateful to the people of Bihar... I have been saying from the beginning that RJD would not be able to stop BJP. You can check my speeches. I had said that. Today also, I am appealing to those people in Bihar who have misconception about the ‘MY’ (Muslim and Yadav) combination.”

He said he had voiced his concerns (before the polls) over the fact that NDA was gaining ground in the Bihar, and regretted that his apprehension had been proven right.

In an apparent reference to minority voters in Bihar, he urged them to become “vote takers” rather than just “vote givers”, saying it would help promote leadership among them and also check “communal and fascist forces”. — PTI