Barkha Live With Owaisi: ‘Triple Talaq for Modi, Akhilesh & Rahul’
Barkha Dutt live from Lucknow with AIMIM Prez Asaduddin Owaisi on ‘spoiling’ UP elections. Can he make a dent?
MIM leader Asad Owaisi is fielding 38 candidates in Uttar Pradesh. Is this his attempt to take his party national or will he be a "spoiler" - a word he has called "fuedalistic and patronising." Rejecting suggestions that his "cutting " Muslim votes would only help the BJP, Owaisi called Akhilesh Yadav and Narendra Modi "two sides of the same coin....ek bade miyan to doosre chhote miyan". Owaisi, who is reported to have been in alliance talks with Mayawati at one point, compared the BSP leader to President Obama. Asked if his call for "triple Talaq" against Modi, Akhilesh and Rahul Gandhi included Mayawati, he quipped "does anyone divorce a Behen?"
Watch him talk to Barkha Dutt as he hits the campaign trail in UP.
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