Owaisis Always Refused Security Cover

Owaisis Always Refused Security Cover

The Owaisis have never sought police protection either for their own selves or for the Darussalam, the headquarters of the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen.

Right from the time of Abdul Wahed Owaisi, who took over the reins of the MIM after police action, to the third-generation Owaisi brothers, the family has always moved freely in the city even during the worst of communal riots without any police protection. Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi too had no armed bodyguards.

While legislators vie with one another to seek armed bodyguards and complain about “meagre” security, the MP, Mr Asaduddin Owaisi, and his younger brother, Mr Akbaruddin Owaisi, the MIM floor leader in the state Assembly, have been consistently rejecting the security cover offered by the city police.

Only recently, the police had offered two bodyguards each to the Owaisi brothers, but they had turned down the offer. The city police commissioner, Mr A.K. Khan, said they have renewed the security cover offer to the MIM MP and the MLA after Saturday’s murderous attack on Mr Akbaruddin Owaisi.

Quite often, the Owaisis had said that their faith in God and service to people would protect them, and if God willed otherwise, no amount of security cover would safeguard them. The Owaisi brothers also drive their own vehicles. Old timers recall that Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi used to ride his Norton motorbike without fear.

Unlike the offices of other political parties, which are fortified by heavy armed guards, the Darussalam does not have even private guards. There are no metal detectors and visitors are not frisked. It is a free passage to the Darussalam and meeting Owaisi brothers comes without any hassles.