All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said that the Union Finance Minister should introduce a ‘berozgar tax’ and tax the unemployed.
Reacting to the Union Budget, Owaisi said, “It appears as if the Prime Minister is saying that the first right over middle class properties is that of our allies.”
He further said, “There are 17 crore Muslims in India, the largest minority in the country. I want to ask if there are no poor, no youth, no farmers or backward classes among Muslims. The Muslim population is the poorest. Data from the All India Debt & Investment Survey (AIDIS) and the periodic Labour Force Survey (PLF) suggest that Muslims have low job enrolments as compared to other minorities. Muslims face disadvantage in overall welfare.”
The Hyderabad MP further criticised the government for cutting scholarships for minority students and stressed on the dropout rate among Muslims.
