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AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said his party approached Mahagathbandhan leaders in Bihar to stop NDA from regaining power. AIMIM’s Akhtarul Iman contacted Congress and RJD.
AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi (PTI Image)
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi stated that his party has approached the Mahagathbandhan leaders in Bihar to prevent the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) from regaining power in the upcoming Assembly elections.
Owaisi added that his party’s state chief, Akhtarul Iman, has contacted Mahagathbandhan leaders, which includes the Congress and RJD, and expressed willingness to collaborate against the BJP and its allies.
“Our State President, Akhtarul Iman, has spoken to some leaders in the Mahagathbandhan, and he has categorically stated that we do not want the BJP or NDA to come back in power in Bihar. Now it is up to these political parties that want to prevent the NDA from returning to power in Bihar,” he told the news agency ANI.
Despite having a strong presence in Bihar’s Seemanchal region, the AIMIM suffered a major setback in 2022 when four of its five MLAs joined Tejashwi Yadav’s RJD. The AIMIM Chief said that his party will be fielding candidates not only from Seemanchal but outside as well.
“If they (Mahagathbandhan) are not ready, I am ready to contest everywhere…Wait for the time to come. It is too early to announce the exact number,” he added.
The AIMIM Chief earlier wrote to the Election Commission of India opposing the “Special Intensive Revision” of electoral rolls in Bihar. “It is a legally questionable exercise that will leave genuine voters without a voice in the forthcoming elections,” he claimed on X.
Owaisi also targeted the Election Commission, accusing it of covertly implementing the NRC in Bihar.
“To be enrolled in the voter roll, every citizen will now have to show documents not only proving when and where they were born, but also when and where their parents were born. Even the best estimates state that only three-fourths of births are registered. Most government documents are riddled with errors,” he wrote on X.
He claimed that this exercise would result in the poor being removed from the electoral rolls, effectively violating their constitutional rights.
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