Former UP Governor Aziz Qureshi said the Owaisi brothers are spreading communalism through their speeches and misleading the Muslim youth into thinking that Hindus are enemies of Muslims.

Former UP Governor Aziz Qureshi on Saturday termed Hyderabad's Owaisi brothers as the biggest enemies of Indian Muslims and claimed that the ISI had agents in India who should be beheaded for the sake of the country.

Talking to India Today in Agra, where he had arrived to attend a function at a local college, Qureshi said that the Owaisi brothers are spreading communalism through their speeches and misleading the Muslim youth into thinking that Hindus are enemies of Muslims, whereas Hindus and Muslims were two threads in the fabric of Hindustan and drawing out any threat will unravel the entire country.

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He said that he was appalled by the statement given by the Pakistani youth Naved who had been arrested in Jammu. He said that these youth were being misled by the ISI and strong action should be taken against Pakistan by the world for preparing terrorists.

Answering a question regarding the hanging of Yakub Memon, he said that it was an unprecedented display of the Indian justice system at work where Yakub was given opportunity to place his plea before the court at 3 am. If someone still calls this injustice, then they should be hanged as traitors too.

He alleged that his removal from the post of governor was a result of his being a Muslim governor in a BJP government. He said that only Sonia Gandhi could lead this country's secular forces and this country would do well to re-elect the Congress. He said that recognising the Jauhar University in Rampur was also included in the reasons behind his forced removal.

Industrialist Nazeer Ahmed who accompanied Qureshi said that Qureshi was one of the few muslim politicians who never thought Hindus and Muslims were separate while he was on any post in the government or as a governor.