Congress president Rahul Gandhi won Kerala's Wayanad due to 40 per cent population being Muslims, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi has claimed.

"The Congress leader [Rahul Gandhi] himself lost in Amethi and received victory in Wayanad. Isn't the 40% population of Wayanad Muslim?" Asaduddin Owaisi asked on Sunday as he addressed a public gathering in Hyderabad on Sunday.

Hopeful that Muslims get their place in the country, Asaduddin Owaisi said the community does not want to survive on anyone's alms.

"On 15 August 1947, our elders thought that this will be a new India. That India will be of Azad, Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar and of crores of their followers. I am still hopeful of getting our place in the country. We don't want alms, we don't want to survive on your alms," Owaisi said.

"You don't want to leave Congress and other secular parties. But remember they don't have strength, thinking, they don't work hard...Where did BJP lose? In Punjab. Who's there? Sikhs. Why did BJP lose anywhere else in India? Due to regional parties there and not Congress. The Congress leader himself lost in Amethi and received victory in Wayanad. Isn't the 40 per cent population of WayanadMuslim?" Owaisi added.

Rahul Gandhi won by 4,31,063 votes against his nearest rival PP Suneer of Left Democratic Front (LDF) from Wayanad constituency. Rahul Gandhi lost to Union minister Smriti Irani from Gandhi's family bastion of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.

In Kerala, Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) bagged 19 out of the 20 seats.

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