India: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Waris Pathan’s face was blackened by an unknown assailant today as he reached the Khajrana Dargah in Madhya Pradesh. Visuals accessed by Times Now showed the politician emerging from the Dargah and into a throng of people with his face blackened. The individual in question had fled the scene after the attack.
Visuals shared earlier in the day showed the AIMIM leader being welcomed at the Indore airport by party workers and supporters. He had also inaugurated Salar-e-Ummat Charitable Hospital in the city.
With mere days left for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections to begin, the AIMIM has repeatedly locked heads with political rivals. The party is contesting 203 seats as part of the ‘Bhagidari Parivartan Morcha’ – a pre-poll alliance of a former UP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha’s Jan Adhikar Party and the Waman Meshram-led BAMCEF.
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