NEW DELHI: AIMIM nationwide spokesperson Syed Asim Waqar joined the Congress on Wednesday and launched a pointy assault on his former social gathering, accusing the Asaduddin Owaisi-led outfit of opposing these combating the BJP whereas merely paying lip service to the objective of defeating the ruling social gathering.Waqar joined the Congress within the presence of AICC in-charge for Uttar Pradesh Rajendra Pal Gautam, UP Congress chief Ajay Rai and AICC Minority Division chairman Imran Pratapgarhi on the social gathering headquarters at 24 Akbar Highway, information company PTI reported.Gautam welcomed Waqar into the social gathering and mentioned the Congress-led motion below Chief of Opposition Rahul Gandhi was centered on points regarding schooling, employment, college students, ladies and marginalised sections.“Underneath the management of the Chief of the Opposition, Shri Rahul Gandhi, a motion is underway throughout the nation on points regarding schooling, employment, college students, ladies, and marginalised sections,” Gautam mentioned at a press convention after Waqar was inducted into the social gathering.“Rahul Gandhi ji is firmly elevating the voice of each part and constantly cautioning the federal government on each entrance. Impressed by this, senior leaders from varied events are becoming a member of the Congress Get together and strengthening the fingers of Shri Mallikarjun Kharge and Shri Rahul Gandhi,” he mentioned.
Waqar targets AIMIM, says social gathering fights Opposition as a substitute of BJP
Explaining his determination to go away AIMIM, Waqar mentioned these in search of to take away the BJP shouldn’t be combating different opposition events.“However I felt being within the AIMIM for therefore a few years that we pay lip service by stating that the BJP have to be eliminated however on the bottom we do not combat the BJP, we combat the Congress, the SP, we’re combating each different one that needs to take away the BJP,” Waqar mentioned.He mentioned this strategy in the end advantages the BJP and prompted him to change sides.“So, I felt that if we preserve combating the opposition and don’t enable it to blossom, then who’re we serving to the BJP. I’ve determined that if we’re true nationalists and wish to take away the BJP truthfully then our goal must be to combat the BJP. If we’re combating the enemies of the BJP then we’re associates of the BJP,” he mentioned.Waqar mentioned he now believed the Congress was the principal power taking up the BJP nationally.“In actuality if somebody is combating the BJP throughout the nation it’s Congress, Rahul Gandhi and his workforce,” he asserted.
Asim Waqar’s Congress swap comes forward of UP polls
Waqar had been a distinguished voice of the AIMIM in Uttar Pradesh and was thought of near social gathering chief Asaduddin Owaisi.His transfer to the Congress is being seen by political observers as a improvement that might have an effect on Owaisi’s efforts to develop the AIMIM’s electoral footprint in Uttar Pradesh.Meeting elections in Uttar Pradesh are scheduled to be held early subsequent 12 months, with the ruling BJP anticipated to face a possible joint problem from the Samajwadi Get together and Congress.(With company inputs)
