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The myth of Owaisi’s polarisation The option of letting a Muslim represent Muslims and giving Asadduddin Owaisi a seat at the Mahagathbandhan table does not seem to have occurred to anyone. Updated: December 22, 2020 10:14:17 pm AIMIM s president Asaduddin Owaisi. (File) Written by Nizam Pasha There has been much disquiet in the “liberal” circles over Asadduddin Owaisi’s rise in national politics as the face of India’s Muslims. There is great indignation over how he is cutting the Congress-Mahagathbandhan vote share and directly benefitting the Sangh Parivar. Writing about the Congress’s landslide victory in the 1937 provincial elections in Bihar, Maulana Azad in his book India Wins Freedom wrote that the general secretary of the AICC, Syed Mehmud, was the natural candidate for the position of chief minister of the first autonomous provincial government in Bihar. But voices within the Congress, led by Rajend ....