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Hyderabad:Indian Muslims are not sogaye guzre that they will take away mangalsutras of Hindu sisters,AIMIM chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisisaid, referring to Prime Minister NarendraModisremarks that if the Congress comes to power, it will redistribute gold, includingmangalsutras,from mothers and daughtersamong Muslims...
Speaking with ThePrint, Owaisi also rejected the working paper of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), raising questions about the author and saying the paper deliberately left out data and was published ahead of the elections to back Modis recent attacks on Muslims...
Citing the 2019-21 National Family Health Survey data, which shows that the total fertility rate in the Muslim community has fallen, Owaisi said,The whole idea is to send out a message to the Hindu community,Look how the Muslim population has jumped.But the Hindu population has also increased..
The EAC-PM paper interpreted the 2017 Religious Characteristics of States Dataset (RCS-Dem) derived from the 2011 Census data, showing the Hindus share in Indias population fell by 6.62 percentage points between 1950 and 2015 while the share of all religious minorities, except Parsis and Jains, increased, with the Muslims share rising by 4.25 percentage points...
Pointing out the contradiction in Modi and Amit Shah apologising over Union Minister of State Parshottam Rupalas comments on the Rajputs and the Prime Minister using terms like ghuspaithia(infiltrators), jihadi and implying Muslim women give birth to more children and no one protesting that, Owaisi said the Muslims should learn from how the Rajput community has reacted from Gujarat to Rajasthan to Uttar Pradesh...
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