All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) supremo Asaduddin Owaisi. (File Photo)

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) supremo Asaduddin Owaisi said on Tuesday that the “so-called secular parties will not be able to stop the BJP” and that Muslims should create their own political leadership. He was addressing a press conference held in Hyderabad, a day after the West Bengal Assembly election results were declared.

Owaisi’s party fielded 11 candidates in the election. All of them were defeated, and the AIMIM got a total vote share of 0.09% in West Bengal.

Elaborating on his charge against “secular parties”, Owaisi said that in Delhi , Arvind Kejriwal ’s AAP had tried their hand at “soft-Hindutva”.

“In Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackery’s party and the undivided Nationalist Congress Party had all tried their hand at soft Hindutva.…