Lucknow: Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi’s party All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen has released its first list of candidates for the Uttar Pradesh elections. This list was released by the party’s state president Shaukat Ali.
According to the list released by AIMIM, Doctor Mahtab will be its candidate for Loni seat in Ghaziabad. Furkan Chaudhary has been nominated for Hapur’s Garh Mukteshwar seat and Haji Arif has been nominated for Dhaulana seat. Rafat Khan will contest from Siwal Khas seat of Meerut, Zeeshan Alam from Sardhana seat and Taslim Ahmed from Kithore seat. On the other hand, Amjad Ali will be the candidate from Behat seat of Saharanpur district and Margub Hasan from Saharanpur Dehat seat. Shaheen Raza Khan has been made a candidate for the Bareilly seat of Bareilly district.
Asaduddin Owaisi’s party is going to contest the assembly elections alone this time. Owaisi’s party has announced to field candidates for 100 seats in the state. AIMIM had contested the 2017 elections on 38 seats, but lost its deposits in 37 seats. In this election, 0.24 percent votes were received. AIMIM had earlier tied up with Om Prakash Rajbhar’s party for the UP elections to be held this year. But later in Rajbhar made an agreement with the Samajwadi Party. After this AIMIM fell alone in the politics of UP.
As an independent media platform, we do not take advertisements from governments and corporate houses. It is you, our readers, who have supported us on our journey to do honest and unbiased journalism. Please contribute, so that we can continue to do the same in future.
