While announcing that the party will contest 100 seats in Uttar Pradesh, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Sunday announced its second list of candidates for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
SO far, the party led by Asaduddin Owaisi MP declared candidates for 17 seats.
According to the list, Dr. Mahtab will contest from the Loni constituency and Pandit Manmohan Kha will contest from Sahibabad constituency. Both two constituencies are in Ghaziabad district.
Dr. Abdul Mannan is the AIMIM candidate in Uthraula constituency and AIMIM’s Talib Siddiqui will contest from Bhojpura constituency.
Furqan Chaudhry is AIMIM candidate from Garh Mukteshwar in Hapur district while Haji Arif will contest from Dhaulana in the same district.
AIMIM give tickets to Rafat Khan from Siwal Khas and to Zeeshan Alam from Saradhana. It has fielded Tasleem Ahmad from Kithore. All three constituencies are in Meerut district.
In Muzaffar Nagar district, Tahir Ansari will contest from Charthawal and Intaezaar Ansari will contest from Muzaffar Nagar Sadar while in Bareilly district, Shaheen Raza Khan (Bareilly-124) and Taufeeq Pardhan ( Bithrii Chainpur) are the AIMIM candidates.
The other candidates are Amjad Ali (Behat) and Margoob Hasan (Saharanpur Dehat) -both in Saharanpur district- Sadiq Ali (Jhansi Sadar) and Sher Afghan (Rudauli).
Meanwhile, AIMIM’s efforts to have poll alliances with some smaller parties have not yielded results.
People will remember handling of COVID by Yogi govt: Owaisi
Taking a dig at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over his handling of COVID-19 during the second wave in that state, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said the people of Gorakhpur will remember it and will cast their vote against Yogi Adityanath in the coming Assembly polls in UP.
“The way the Yogi government went missing during COVID second wave leaving the Uttar Pradesh public on their own…dead bodies were floating in rivers in Uttar Pradesh and also in Gorakhpur…I am hopeful the people of Gorakhpur will remember this and will take a good decision against Yogi Adityanath,” he said.
While responding to the oft-repeated criticism that he is indirectly helping BJP, Owaisi went to say: “I will be accused of this life for my entire life. The question is why did BJP win in 2014, 2017, and 2019? Nobody is able to answer my question. Because all these so-called secular parties were unsuccessful in defeating BJP. In 2019, AIMIM contested only three Lok Sabha seats. Then, how did BJP win over 306 seats? They are frustrated and can foresee their defeat. They are accusing AIMIM as they don’t have the ideological and intellectual capacity to beat BJP.”
The Assembly elections are scheduled to be held in seven phases between February 10 and March 7. A total of 58 constituencies will go to the polls in the first phase on February 10.
