All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi, while addressing a gathering of party workers and supporters, conjectured that the Owaisi brothers could be jailed and killed.
Mr. Akbaruddin, who is the younger brother of Hyderabad Parliamentarian Asaduddin Owaisi, was speaking at an Eid Milap event in Charminar Assembly segment. While urging party workers to strengthen their relationship with the public, he said, “We are neither afraid, nor do we care. But given the circumstances today, we do not know how we will die. We do not know if Akbaruddin Owaisi too will be poisoned in jail. We do not know whether Asaduddin Owaisi and Akbaruddin Owaisi will be jailed, and on the ruse of being taken to a hospital will be shot,” he said. “I am hopeful that this will not happen, but notwithstanding that , I do not know.”
The remarks came in the aftermath of two recent incidents in Uttar Pradesh — the gunning down of politician Atiq Ahmed and more recently the passing away of another politician Mukhtar Ansari, who took ill in the prison and was pronounced dead in the hospital. There were allegations that he was given slow poison.
