Hyderabad, June 18 -- AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the Trinamool Congress (TMC), questioning the leadership's inability to prevent multiple defections from their parties.

Taking to X, the Hyderabad MP suggested that several MPs from the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) are looking to jump ship.

"Some UBT MPs are also looking to defect to the BJP. Maybe we should ask the two PROMINENT MPs to tell us who 'threatened' these MPs to defect to the BJP?" Owaisi wrote.

Owaisi also turned his sights toward West Bengal, questioning the massive exodus of TMC leaders to the saffron camp in the past.

"Why did the other 19 TMC MPs defect? Maybe it'll take a month to blame someone...