'You Can't Defeat PM Modi': Asaduddin Owaisi Takes Dig at Congress After Haryana Loss

New Delhi: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi took a jibe at the Congress Party after its loss in the Haryana Polls saying "You have to take everyone along to defeat Modi."

At a public meeting in Vikarabad, Telangana, on Friday night, Owaisi suggested that the Congress needed a more inclusive strategy to defeat the BJP. He said, “How did they ( BJP ) win ( Haryana )? I was not there. Otherwise, they would have said 'B Team'... They lost there. Now, you tell me, they lost because of whom?”

"I would like to tell the old party. Understand what I am saying. You have to take everyone along to defeat Modi. You will not be able to do anything alone," he added.

This comes as the BJP clinched a stunning hat-trick win in Haryana Assembly polls, overcoming anti-incumbency and dashing Congress ' hopes of a comeback. The saffron party won 48 of the 90 assembly seats in Haryana , well above the simple majority mark of 46.

BJP Reacts to Owaisi's Remark 

Reacting to Owaisi's remark, Bharatiya Janata Party's national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said, "Be it TMC , SP, Uddhav Sena or Owaisi, ever since the results of Haryana elections came, they are all telling Congress , "Rahul, tumse naa ho paayega." I think Congress party has become a parasite party. When Congress faces the BJP without any support, we have seen its condition then in Jammu, Haryana, Gujarat , Rajasthan , Chhattisgarh ...Congress stands nowhere. Congress becomes 'Betal' and makes its allies 'Vikram' and then sucks out their vote bank. So, everyone is telling them to not destroy their vote bank and contest together..."

Meanwhile, the party's spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari said that it is clear that "INDI Alliance is only attempting to create fear in the Muslim community and lying to them."

"It is clear today that if Asaduddin Owaisi was anyone's B team, it was of Congress party and INDI Alliance. Initially, they were contesting separately so that they could unite the vote bank of Muslim community and create fear in that community. But now it is clear that entire INDI Alliance is only attempting to create fear in the Muslim community and lying to them...So, they are fearful that their vote bank will vote for development...Real communal politics is being done by Asaduddin Owaisi, Rahul Gandhi and INDI Alliance," he said.

(Inputs from PTI)