Hate speech is the fastest way to promotion in BJP: Owaisi

Hyderabad: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi has slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saying that hate speech was the fastest way to promotion in the saffron party under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Owaisi’s statement came in response to the revocation of Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh’s suspension.

Singh was suspended from his party in August last year following his alleged controversial remarks against “Islam and Prophet Mohammed” in a video which was later pulled down by the social media platform on which it was uploaded.

He was arrested under the Preventive Detention Act. However, the Telangana High Court in November 2022 had set aside the PD Act invoked against him. Later, he was granted bail.

“@narendramodi has rewarded his dear “fringe element.” Quite sure that Nupur Sharma will also get her blessings from the PM. Hate speech is the fastest way to a promotion in Modi’s BJP,” Owaisi said on X.

In a statement, Telangana BJP chief G Kishan Reddy on Sunday said that the BJP leadership lifted the suspension of Raja Singh, MLA from Goshamahal in Hyderabad in the outgoing Telangana Legislative Assembly, considering his explanation in response to the show cause notice served by the party earlier.

Singh, in a video message, thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP President J P Nadda, General Secretary B L Santhosh, Union Minister and Telangana BJP unit chief Kishan Reddy and other state leaders for revoking his suspension.

He also thanked the party leadership for giving him a ticket to contest from his Goshamahal Assembly seat here for the November 30 polls.

With inputs from PTI