People’s Front candidate Osman Al-Hajri assures Metro link to Karwan

Hyderabad: Challenging the ‘communal politics’ of BJP and MIM, the Praja kutami (People’s Front) candidate, Osman Al-Hajri, promised to bring in Metro Rail connectivity to Karwan constituency, besides fighting the menace of mosquitoes that has increased manifold in the recent years.

Speaking at a public meeting in Langar Houz, Osman Al-Hajri wondered as to when the entire city can be connected through Metro Rail and why it was not possible to link the parts of Karwan and Golconda to the Metro towards Shamshabad and Hi-tech City. Al-Hajri said that it was quite possible to connect the parts with Metro, as they are on the banks of Musi River. He said that by availing of the existing open channel Metro rail connectivity is quite possible. “It is quite possible and the Congress will do it once it comes to power both in the state and centre. Give me a chance, and I will ensure that this plan gets materialised,” he said.

Taking a dig at the MIM, he claimed that the party’s leadership was behind the plot of Wakf and Shamshan Ghats in the Karwan constituency. Instead of providing any government jobs or generating employment, the entire focus of the party remained in dividing the Hindus and Muslims on communal lines and in pushing the Old City into complete darkness. He said that the entire community was fed up with the opium of communal issues. “Their family was living at a rented house in Ausa village in Maharastra and now constructed a huge palace on 9 acres of land in Shastripuram in Hyderabad. How this transformation has come,” he asked, referring to the MIM leader.

The Wakf activist-turned-politician said that the MIM leaders remained agents of big parties and always played communal card to keep aloof from developmental issues. Drawing parallels between the BJP and MIM, he said that former BJP MLA Baddam Balreddy, a maestri-turned-politician, and MIM’s Akbaruddin Owaisi owned huge bungalows in Banjara Hills and were interestingly neighbours. He alleged that the example shows how the two political parties complement each other. “Their loose talk on communal lines has provided ammunition to the BJP. In fact, their speeches are scripted by Amit Shah, with whom they had a deal of Rs 700 crores at the time of Maharashtra Assembly elections,” he flayed.

Beyond the communal agenda, the MIM does not have anything related to development, said Al-Hajri and challenged the party leaders to come up with a Manifesto this time around. “Save humanity and vote for non-communal parties. I promise to provide pen in each hand in place of stone,” he asserted. Al-Hajri said that even KCR failed to bring development in the area, and that he snatched away the rights of poor women who were getting kerosene and ration. “Not a single college or health centre has come up under the TRS government in the area,” he noted.