HYDERABAD: A senior All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) legislator on Sunday said it would take the party only two months to topple the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government even as the TRS described it as a joke.
On November 19, IT Minister KT Rama Rao had said there was no alliance with MIM and the party was confident of winning more than 10 seats in MIM’s turf in the Old City in the GHMC polls.
Reacting to KTR’s statement, MIM Charminar legislator Mumtaz Ahmed Khan on Sunday described the TRS working president as a parrot.
“KTR is a parrot. He is new into politics and MIM has the capacity to bring down the TRS government in just two months,” Mumtaz said.
After taking part in an ongoing GHMC election campaign in the old city, the Charminar MLA, quoting the late MIM President Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, said that “MIM has always been a key player in bringing a party into power or bringing it down”.
While the MIM and the TRS have had no formal alliance, experts say tacit understanding between the two parties exist and they have warm relations, and much of the talk could just be political posturing ahead of polls.
Reacting to Mumtaz’s comments, animal husbandry minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav said it was silly that AIMIM was threatening to topple the TRS government.
“People know the number of MLAs each party has, and it is a joke that a party with seven MLAs is saying that it will topple the government,” he said.
In the 119 Telangana assembly, TRS has 100 seats and AIMIM seven, but the growing clout of Asaduddin Owaisi’s party in Telangana and across India has been a growing concern for the TRS. MIM also has 44 corporators out of the 150 wards in GHMC.
“AIMIM should know if KTR is a child or adult by looking at his road show. Didn’t AIMIM leaders go around TRS ministers for developmental work related to the old city,” Yadav said, adding: “We will not fall into their trap even if they make instigating comments.”