Limbayat, April 20 -- AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday blamed the Congress as among those responsible for the 1947 Partition, saying it was wrong to hold Muslims responsible and citing the country's first Education Minister, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's, book India Wins Freedom.

Addressing a public rally in Gujarat's Limbayat, Owaisi said, "Muslims were not responsible for the partition. Is the Congress party not among those responsible for the partition? In his book India Wins Freedom, Maulana Azad writes that he went to Gandhi and Nehru and appealed to them not to let India be divided."

He also hit out at the Congress and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) for calling AIMIM the BJP's "B team" in West Bengal, objecting to criticism over h...