On July 16, AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi slammed the BJP government over the mosque demolished in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur and said that this is being encouraged by the Shinde-BJP government. “It is a kind of terrorist attack on the Mosque. There is a Shinde-Fadnavis BJP government there (Maharashtra). It is because of the government that such attacks are happening on the Mosques...This is being encouraged by the Shinde-BJP government...We want to become a Vishvaguru but demolish the Mosque...This is a deliberate targeting of Muslims and religious places...,” said Asaduddin Owaisi.