Narendra Modi will burn Muslims with tezaab, says Azam Khan
Responding to the claim the Gujarat CM made at a rally in Lucknow on Sunday that there were no riots in Gujarat in the last 10 years, Khan said Muslims had no option but to be submissive in Guajrat.
Samajwadi Party leader and Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister Azam Khan raised the poll pitch in the state with highest number of Lok Sabha seats by taking on BJP PM nominee Narendra Modi, claiming that Modi had terrorised Muslims in Gujarat to vote for him.
Responding to the claim the Gujarat Chief Minister made at a rally in Lucknow on Sunday that there were no riots in Gujarat in the last 10 years of his rule, Khan said Muslims had no option than being submissive in Guajrat. "How can there be riots in Gujarat? How will they not vote for Modi? Would they not be burnt with Tezaab (acid)? Where will they go then? If they have to live in Gujarat they will have to vote (for Modi)," he said.
Khan also added that Modi "will turn the whole country into Gujarat".
Speaking at a well-attended rally in the state capital, Modi had taken on the SP government in UP, maintaining that it treated Muslims only as its vote bank.
"The Muslim man is nothing more than one vote for these parties that shout from the rooftops about secularism," he said.
Maintaining that while in Gujarat, the number of applicants for the annual Haj yatra subsidy far exceeds the available quota, Modi said in Uttar Pradesh, with its 32,000-strong quota for the Haj travel sees barely about 35,000 applicants every year. "If Muslims were better off, more of them would apply," Modi said.