Hyderabad (Telangana):Asaduddin Owaisi, AIMIM chief and candidate from Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat, expressed his openness to supporting a prime ministerial candidate other than Narendra Modi. Owaisi said to ANI, "I cannot talk about ifs, buts, and possibilities. I had said during the elections that if there is a chance that someone else can become the PM instead of Modi, then we will support them."
Reflecting on the 2024 election results, Owaisi said that the BJP should not even get this many seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha.
"The atmosphere that was there in the country, according to that the BJP should not have got even these number of seats. If we had done the right work they would have just got 150 seats. We could have stopped the BJP from forming the government and even the public wanted this, but were unsuccessful. But, at least we cannot be blamed," said Owaisi.
"One thing is clear there wasn't any Muslim vote bank in the country and there never will be," he added. Addressing the BJP's performance in Uttar Pradesh where, Owaisi said, "They thought they were invisible in UP but no one is invincible. Will PM Modi run the government with the help of crutches?"