Attacking the Congress, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi, has said that the party has been “wiped out” from the landscape and can’t be revived even if it was administered a “calcium injection”.

He made the remarks as he addressed a public meeting for the October 21 Maharashtra assembly elections.

“Congress has weakened. Strength cannot be infused into it even if the best calcium injection of the world is administered to it. They’re going downwards now and no one can pick them up because they themselves aren’t ready to put up a fight,” Owaisi said addressing a gathering in Pune.

Following up on his critique of the grand old party, AIMIM chief Owaisi further said that former Congress President Rahul Gandhi has left a ‘sinking ship’ and ‘jumped to the shore’.

The comment comes after Gandhi, on Saturday, left for a foreign visit to Bangkok ahead of the assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana, leading to several eyebrows being raised regarding the veteran Congress leader’s responsibilities during a crucial time in the country’s politics.

The AIMIM chief also attacked the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saying said the ruling party has passed a bill in Himachal Pradesh making it mandatory for a citizen to give a one-month notice for religious conversion.

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra in-coalition with the Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (BBM) of PrakashAmbedkar under the aegis of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA). The VBA had won Aurangabad Lok Sabha seat.

For the forthcoming Maharashtra elections too, the party had been in talks with BBM leader Prakash Ambedkar. However, the talks were futile over allocation of seats.

The Maharashtra Assembly elections are scheduled to be held on October 21 and the counting of votes will be done on October 24.