By Mohammed Siddique, TwoCircles.net
Hyderabad: In a reflection of the respect he commanded across the political divide, the AIMIM President Salahuddin Owaisi earned kudos from the young BJP legislator G Kishan Reddy as well as a leftist poet Ghaddar.
“Despite the ideological differences I can tell you that Mr. Owaisi was a great political leader”, said Kishan Reddy paying his tributes to Owaisi, who passed away on Monday evening.
He recalled that when he was elected to the state assembly in 2004, Mr. Owaisi had call him over phone to congratulate. “I was very happy that a veteran leader like Salahuddin Owaisi remembered a young MLA like me”.
Owaisi was paid rich tributes even from the left. The popular balladeer Ghaddar described Owaisi as a “great leader of Muslim community”.
“His one call was enough to establish peace in the city”, said Ghaddar.