City Politics Hyderabad

Asaduddin Owaisi chants ‘Jai Bhim’ ‘Jai Palestine’ in parliament

Asaduddin Owaisi Oath Chant

Hyderabad: Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi from All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) who won Hyderabad parliament seat took oath on Tuesday.

While Asaduddin Owaisi called to the podium to take oath, as soon as his name was called, other MPs started chanting the Jai Shri Ram slogan. Replying to the same AIMIM chief and senior parliamentarian Owaisi chanted “Jai Bhim, Jai Palestine, Jai Mim, Jai Telangana, and Allahu Akbar” after taking his oath as MP.

Asaduddin Owaisi from AIMIM emerged victorious with over a majority of three lakh votes for the fifth time consecutively from the Hyderabad parliamentary segment in the recently concluded loksabha elections. Taking to X(formerly twitter), Sworn in as member of Lok Sabha for the fifth time. Inshallah I will continue to raise issues of India’s marginalised with sincerity.”

Speaking to the media after coming out from Lok Sabha Owaisi said in reply, “Other members are also saying different thing. I said ‘Jai Bheem, Jai Telangana, Jai Palestine’. How is it wrong? Tell me the provisions of the Constitution? You should also listen to what others say. Read what Mahatma Gandhi had said about Palestine”.

Owaisi has garnered a total of 6,61,981 votes, putting him ahead in the race. Madhavi Latha Kompella from the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP), who has received 3,23,894 votes came in second position trailing by a margin of 3,38,087 votes. The Hyderabad constituency remained a pocket borough of the Owaisi family ever since incumbent MP Asaduddin Owaisi’s father Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi won the Lok Sabha election in Hyderabad for the first time as an independent candidate in 1984. Asaduddin Owaisi’s father Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi was elected an MP from the Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat for six consecutive terms till 2004.