AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has branded Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s recent conciliatory remarks on Hindu-Muslim unity as “cheap, loose talk” aimed at audiences in the United States and Gulf nations.
In an interview with PTI on Saturday, the Hyderabad MP said that despite Bhagwat’s statement that Hindus and Muslims “share the same DNA” and his warning against seeking a ‘Shivling’ under every mosque, RSS cadres continue to push court cases challenging the origins of Mughal-era mosques.
“If you think they are wrong, why don’t you stop them?” Owaisi asked, calling the remarks “hypocritical” and insisting the Sangh’s ideology is fundamentally incompatible with India’s secular fabric.
He dismissed any prospect of meeting the RSS chief—“I’m not itching to see him”—and accused the organisation of pursuing a long-term agenda to reshape India into a theocratic state.
“From Hedgewar to Golwalkar, Deoras to Bhagwat, the goal has remained the same,” he said. “We are the opposite shores of a sea; never can the twain meet.”
Bhagwat has participated in dialogue with Muslim scholars in recent years, but Owaisi argued that genuine influence would be proven only by concrete action to curb what he called an “anti-Muslim tamasha.”
