Hyderabad: AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi has stirred controversy with his remark that every child is born a Muslim as he locked horns with right-wing Hindu outfits over their 'ghar wapsi' programme.

"Every child is born a Muslim. His parents and society convert him to other religions," Owaisi said, apparently in a tit-for-tat to hardline Hindu organizations, which have been claiming that ancestors of all Indians were Hindus.