SOURCE :- SIASAT NEWS
Hyderabad/Lucknow: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and Azad Samaj Party will come together to fight out the reigning Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled to take place next year.
The announcement and seat-sharing are likely to be made by party chiefs, Asaduddin Owaisi and Chandrashekhar Azad, at a joint press conference in Lucknow on Thursday, November 12.
In the 2022 elections, neither AIMIM nor the Azad Samaj Party won a seat. AIMIM contested 95 constituencies, while the Azad Samaj Party fielded over 100 candidates.
This political alliance will mostly focus on Muslim- and Dalit-populated areas of the state, mainly western Uttar Pradesh and the Rohilkhand region. The minorities account for 40 per cent of UP’s population, with Dalits 21 per cent and Muslims at 19 per cent.
On Tuesday, Chandrashekhar Azad hinted that his party would address issues concerning the Muslim community and ensure that their concerns are given prominence.
He also said that had Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) president Jayant Chaudhary shown a bit more “wisdom”, the BJP would have been completely wiped out in Uttar Pradesh.
SOURCE : SIASAT
