Noted Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Jawwad has said it would be betrayal of Islam if the Muslims voted for the Congress.

"The Congress is responsible for breaking at least six mosques in Delhi in the last 10 years, including the 700-year-old Gousiya Masjid in Mehrauli area. The Congress is more dangerous for the Muslims than the BJP," Jawwad said here on Monday at a press conference jointly addressed by him and Yahya Bukhari, the younger brother of Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari.

Although Jawwad didn't say that the Muslims should go with the BJP, he said the members of the minority community should defeat the Congress at any cost.

"The Babri Masjid, which was brought down by the BJP was only 500-year-old. But Gousiya Masjid was much older than the Babri. Further, while the BJP is responsible for only one riot of 2002, the Congress is responsible for hundreds of riots in the country. It was the Congress which had created a situation in which the Babri was demolished in Ayodhya in 1992," he further said.

"Casting vote for the Congress would be a betrayal of Islam and cheating with the 12th and the final Imam of the Shias who was on a mission to bring peace. The Congress has violated the rights of the community to leave peacefully, and systematically pushed them into massacres and insecurity," he said.

Bukhari held Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party (SP) government responsible for the riots of Muzaffarnagar in September 2013 and called the Congress a facilitator of the massacres.

"Mulayam had organised the murders of the Muslim community in Muzaffarnagar. But the Congress was hand in glove with the SP in this design. Otherwise, the Congress-led UPA would have sent the Army in time to prevent the killing of innocent Muslims. Obviously, there is no question of the Muslims supporting the SP and the Congress," he said.

Bukhari claimed that while Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was a good option for the voters of Delhi, it would be better for the voters of other states to support any candidate who could defeat the Congress.