Hyderabad, Nov. 8 -- As the Bihar Assembly elections are underway, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President Asaduddin Owaisi, on Saturday, November 8, questioned the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the saffron party's remark that "infiltrators" in the state are being used as a "vote bank" by political parties.

In an interview with NDTV, Owaisi said that Bihar has over 1 crore of migrant population. "Scores of youth migrate to other states in search of jobs. Why will outsiders come here? Yahaan koyi Khazaana hai kya? (Is there a gold rush in Bihar?" the Hyderabad MP said in an interview to NDTV.

He said that if the claim is true, then Union home minister Amit Shah, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and Prime Minister Na...