AIMIM president, Asaduddin Owaisi, strongly condemned the remarks made against his party by Sholapur MLA of Congress, Shinde Praniti Sushil kumar. He asked her to immediately withdraw her statement otherwise she should be ready to face a criminal defamation case. Asaduddin Owaisi said the comments made by her to ban his party shows her frustration as she only win with a small margin against AIMIM’s candidate.
Mr. Asaduddin Owaisi asked her to remember that her own party had taken the support of Majlis at the Centre from 2004-12 and also during the vote of trust motion in 2008. The Majlis also extended support to the Kiran Kumar government in Andhra Pradesh, Mr. Owaisi said and wondered who was the Sholapur MLA to give a nationalist certificate to him.
The Hyderabad MP asked Ms. Praniti to introspect why Congress lost badly in Maharashtra instead of making reckless statements.
The Majlis would be contesting the coming municipal elections in Sholapur and also the Assembly and Parliament elections in 2019 against the Shindes, he said.
5th November 2014: Praniti Shinde had a close shave against MIM’s Taufiq Shaikh in the fight for the Solapur City Central, a Shinde family bastion for decades.
Congress MLA Praniti Shinde, daughter of former Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, stirred the hornet’s nest on Wednesday by branding the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) a “treasonous political party” and calling for a ban on it.
“The MIM is inimical to the country’s interests. They have never tried to project their ideas on a democratic platform. I am firmly for the proscription of this party,” she said, speaking in Solapur district.
Ms. Shinde, the MLA for Solapur City Central, further said that the speeches of MIM leaders ought to be carefully studied and police action initiated against them.
“The MIM has fundamentally been against India rather than any section of the population and harboured plans for subversion,” she remarked.
The Hyderabad-based party, contesting the Maharashtra elections for the first time, proved to be the dark horse, winning two of the 24 seats it contested, eating into the Congress’ minority vote base. The MIM got around 1 per cent of the total votes polled in the State elections.