Tahir Hussain interview: Hindutva politics, RSS ideology… AAP following similar patterns like BJP 

I reached present (Mustafabad) astir 9.30 am. Immediately, I started door-to-door campaign… I person lone travel retired for 3 days (from jail) but it is not arsenic if I person lone 3 days to campaign. My household and supporters person been going to each household for the past six months – adjacent erstwhile I wasn’t named the AIMIM candidate. In fact, our (his and his wife’s) posters (showing them as) candidates were the archetypal ones to spell public. I had past thought that possibly AAP volition amusement sympathy and springiness my woman a summons similar they person done with (MLA) Naresh Balyan, who has an ongoing MCOCA lawsuit against him (His woman Pooja Balyan is contesting arsenic AAP campaigner from Vikaspuri)… But this did not happen. In fact, AAP wholly ignored me.

I americium banking connected 30 years of hard work. I person grown up here, got joined and had children successful Mustafabad. I emotion my radical and regularisation their hearts… I guarantee you we person not faced immoderate occupation portion campaigning.

What are the issues you are warring for?

I thought that since this constituency had an AAP MLA, immoderate enactment would beryllium done. But that didn’t happen. Schools, hospitals, and roads were not built. Even drainage and cleanliness are large issues. No enactment has been done. Even AAP had to alteration its campaigner this clip (AAP had replaced sitting MLA Haji Yunus with Adil Ahmad Khan).

The biggest occupation with AAP is that they are lone banking connected Kejriwal’s name. For the past 10 years, Kejriwal has not adjacent shown his look to us. The radical won’t autumn for their trap this time. There is truthful overmuch enactment to beryllium done here.

Do you find immoderate similarity betwixt AAP and BJP successful presumption of ideology and principles?

The AAP was calved retired of a movement. Everyone was connected the streets during the Anna (Hazare) andolan due to the fact that they were fed up of the corruption of the UPA government. The BJP gained the astir from this movement. People similar Yogender Yadav and Prashant Bhushan joined the AAP… they were hardworking and honest. However, they were thrown retired due to the fact that they would speech astir however the AAP was becoming undemocratic. One idiosyncratic should person 1 station – this was however they thought ideology could beryllium maintained. I hold with them. Is this happening successful the AAP today? It is simply a enactment wherever aggregate radical are getting aggregate posts.

Second, Delhi’s Muslims thought that AAP has been capable to halt BJP. This was portion of the crushed wherefore AAP won truthful galore seats successful 2015 and 2020 polls. But what has happened present that helium (Kejriwal) is remembering pujaris and granthis each of a sudden. What happened to Kejriwal’s mohabbat and bhaichaara? The AAP has started pursuing akin patterns similar the BJP. They besides travel Hindutva politics… they person started pursuing the ideology of RSS. It is for the radical to see.

Why AIMIM? Why not prime a enactment that has a beardown basal successful Delhi?

I had announced six months agone that I volition contention from Mustafabad. All the parties knew this… they each announced their candidates conscionable a fewer days ago. None of them reached retired to me. AAP and Congress could have… but they were frightened that BJP volition marque this a canvass issue. These truthful called secular parties ever usage Muslims for votes but erstwhile it comes to warring for their issues, they each backmost out.

I americium grateful to (AIMIM main Asaduddin) Owaisi that helium gave maine a chance. I convey him from the heart. He is simply a seasoned politician… Parties that I spent clip with, I shared meals with and campaigned for, abandoned me. But an chartless idiosyncratic showed religion successful me. He hugged maine and fielded maine connected enactment symbol.