AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi’s recent speeches in Uttar Pradesh, asking Muslims to stop depending on the Nehru-Gandhis or Yadavs and build leaders from within the community, have not gone down well with the Telangana Congress. The leaders of the state’s ruling party have accused the Hyderabad MP of “exporting a leadership formula he never implemented” in his own city or state.

“Owaisi is exporting a leadership formula he never implemented in Hyderabad or Telangana,” Congress’s Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency in-charge Mohammed Waliullah Sameer told The Indian Express.

Sameer, a former District Congress Committee (DCC) president, said Owaisi must first answer a simple question: “How many independent Muslim leaders had the AIMIM actually created outside its traditional pockets during decades of political dominance in Telangana?”

He said, “Owaisi is telling Muslims in Uttar Pradesh that Abdul should no longer spread the carpet for others and should himself become a leader. Fine.…