Team News Riveting
Lucknow, November 21
Asaduddin Owaisi founded All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) would field its candidates in 100 assembly constituencies in the ensuing Uttar Pradesh elections.
The state having a strength of 403 assembly seats will go to the polls early next year. Party chief Asaduddin Owaisi announced the decision in Lucknow and said parleys were on with other parties to form an alliance.
“Our party has decided to contest elections on 100 seats. We are in talks with one or two more parties and time will tell, if we form an alliance or not. We are surely in a position to win the elections,” he said. Owaisi further said that AIMIM has been making inroads in Uttar Pradesh.
“Today, we are in this position that we will win the election and get lots of votes too, InshaAllah,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) on Friday hinted at forming an alliance with Samajwadi Party in the state. Sources said both parties will finalise the decision soon. Earlier, in the 2017 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party swept the elections, bagging 312 seats out of the 403-seat Uttar Pradesh Assembly. Samajwadi Party (SP) captured 47 seats.
Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) won 19 and Congress could manage to win only seven seats while the rest of the seats went to independent candidates.
Asaduddin Owaisi’s entry into electoral politics in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh has come as a shock for the anti-BJP forces. For, they fear a split in the opposition minority votes as happened in neighbouring Bihar that helped BJP to retain power in the state.
