Hyderabad, April 20 -- All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, on Sunday, April 19, said that Muslims should not be blamed for the 1947 Partition, and held the Congress among those responsible, citing Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's book "India Wins Freedom."

Addressing a public rally in Gujarat's Limbayat, he 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."

Hitting back at the Congress and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) for calling AIMIM the BJP's "B team" in West Bengal, Owaisi defended...