hyderabad: Because the curtain fell on the nomination section of Jubilee Hills by-polls in Telangana on Tuesday, the All India Majlis-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has prolonged its tacit assist to the Congress get together by abstaining from the elections.
This comes at a time when AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi is fielding a candidate in Bihar, a transfer seen as hurting Mahagathbandhan’s prospects in subsequent month’s state elections.
The Jubilee Hills referendum, necessitated by the dying of Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) MLA Maganti Gopinath in June, is scheduled for November 11.
Chatting with reporters on Tuesday, the AIMIM secretary normal asserted that there will be no connection or comparability between the state elections wherein a brand new authorities might be shaped and the by-polls, which don’t have any impression on the political scenario in Telangana.
Owaisi claimed that regardless that the get together had written to Left get together leaders together with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)’s Lalu Prasad looking for participation within the Mahagathbandhan, and later to Tejashwi Yadav to contest on six seats, there was no favorable response.
“So, we’re going to struggle on our personal, proper? We had already received 5 seats earlier. We’re becoming a member of the Bihar fray in alliance with Chandrashekhar Azad and Swami Prasad Maurya’s events. Please don’t hyperlink the bypolls to the state meeting elections. We don’t wish to touch upon such immature comparisons,” Owaisi mentioned.
AIMIM has shaped a Third Entrance alliance with Mr. Azad’s Azad Samaj Celebration and Mr. Swami Prasad Maurya’s Apni Janata Celebration to contest in Bihar.
“There isn’t a AIMIM candidate within the (Jubilee Hills ballot) contest. If anybody (be it an unbiased candidate) makes use of our get together identify or image, we’ll lodge a criticism with the EC,” Owaisi mentioned, referring to Muslim candidates who had allegedly claimed assist for AIMIM via some movies.
Though he has not made any emphatic bulletins, Owaisi has been vocal in assist of Congress candidate Naveen Yadav, who was as soon as the AIMIM candidate within the constituency. In 2014, AIMIM’s Yadav was the runner-up and BRS’s Maganti was the winner.
“I’m interesting to the folks of Jubilee Hills, who’ve supported BRS for the previous 10 years, to elect the younger Mr. Naveen in hopes of progress,” Owaisi mentioned in response to a media query on the get together headquarters.
Within the 2018 polls, when AIMIM didn’t contest from Jubilee Hills, an meeting block in central Hyderabad with over 100,000 Muslim votes, Yadav stood as an unbiased and got here third. Maganti received once more. The BRS chief scored a hat-trick in 2023, however Yadav didn’t characteristic in that 12 months.
Yadav filed his nomination papers on Friday. Later, throughout his go to to the constituency, he met Mr. Owaisi.
Later, Mr. Owaisi advised reporters that he had suggested Mr. Yadav to take a holistic strategy, reaching out to folks from all communities that make up the Jubilee Hills constituency of three.98 lakh folks.
In a latest public assembly, the AIMIM chief mentioned that regardless of the BRS being in energy for 2 phrases, the constituency had seen little growth or enchancment of public amenities beneath the Maganti administration. He urged voters to “make good selections and assist younger, native candidates.”
This time, BRS supported Mr. Maganti’s widow, Mr. Sunitha. The BJP candidate is Lankala Deepak Reddy, who got here third within the 2023 polls.
In the meantime, BRS leaders say AIMIM’s contradictory positions in Bihar and listed below are complicated folks.
“Voters are confused over AIMIM’s electoral technique and beliefs as a result of whereas AIMIM is making an attempt to not directly assist the Bharatiya Janata Celebration by fielding candidates in Bihar, it has not carried out so in Jubilee Hills and is supporting the ruling Congress,” mentioned BRS MLA KPVivekanand.
(Edited by Tony Lai)
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