AHMEDABAD: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIMWill contest 2022 election Meeting election in Gujarat And the party has already started preparations for the elections, its president Asaduddin Owaisi said on Monday.
He said the state unit of AIMIM would finalize the number of seats to contest in Gujarat, in which the Congress and the BJP, as the main contenders for power, have been doing bipolar politics for years. Speaking to reporters during his visit to Ahmedabad, Owaisi said the Hyderabad-headquartered party will fight the elections with full force and ensure that its candidates enter the 182-member assembly in Gujarat, where the BJP has been ruling for more than two decades. Governance is. Now. The Lok Sabha MP from Hyderabad said, “We will fight the 2022 assembly elections in Gujarat with all our might and it will be our endeavor that AIMIM members reach the assembly.” He said that one of the motives of his visit to Ahmedabad is to discuss the preparations for the elections with the Gujarat unit of the party.
“One of the reasons behind my visit to Ahmedabad is to thank people for supporting our candidates in the last (local body) elections. I have come here to meet the party councilors who won the local body elections (early this year). and interacted with them. “Another purpose (of the yatra) is to review the preparations for the upcoming (assembly) elections,” the AIMIM leader said.Sabir Kabaliwala) and the Gujarat team will decide how many seats we are going to contest. We are sure of getting good support. Owaisi, without disclosing any numbers, said the state unit of AIMIM has identified several assembly seats and work is being done to strengthen the party in those constituencies. We will also contest on Hindu majority seats. Because we have to get votes of all (not just Muslims).”
During his visit, Owaisi met Ahmedabad Congress councilor Shahzad Khan, and said that he did so because the latter worked hard against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Rejecting the Congress’s allegations that the AIMIM works as a “B-team” of the BJP, he asked why Gujarat has only three Muslim MLAs. He said that there should have been at least 10 to 11 Muslim MLAs in the state assembly and wanted to know who was responsible for the victory of a single candidate from the minority community in Gujarat since 1984.
“Can Congress explain why it loses again and again in Gujarat? Is it because of Muslim or non-Muslim votes? Not a single Congress candidate won the 2019 parliamentary elections (in Gujarat). Party leader Rahul Gandhi Lost in Amethi. How was he lost? We didn’t have any candidate to fight against him,” the AIMIM president said. “(Rahul Gandhi) wins from Wayanad (in Kerala) about 35 per cent because of minority voters (in that constituency). We are not concerned with the allegations of B-team, people are watching and they will decide.
He said the state unit of AIMIM would finalize the number of seats to contest in Gujarat, in which the Congress and the BJP, as the main contenders for power, have been doing bipolar politics for years. Speaking to reporters during his visit to Ahmedabad, Owaisi said the Hyderabad-headquartered party will fight the elections with full force and ensure that its candidates enter the 182-member assembly in Gujarat, where the BJP has been ruling for more than two decades. Governance is. Now. The Lok Sabha MP from Hyderabad said, “We will fight the 2022 assembly elections in Gujarat with all our might and it will be our endeavor that AIMIM members reach the assembly.” He said that one of the motives of his visit to Ahmedabad is to discuss the preparations for the elections with the Gujarat unit of the party.
“One of the reasons behind my visit to Ahmedabad is to thank people for supporting our candidates in the last (local body) elections. I have come here to meet the party councilors who won the local body elections (early this year). and interacted with them. “Another purpose (of the yatra) is to review the preparations for the upcoming (assembly) elections,” the AIMIM leader said.Sabir Kabaliwala) and the Gujarat team will decide how many seats we are going to contest. We are sure of getting good support. Owaisi, without disclosing any numbers, said the state unit of AIMIM has identified several assembly seats and work is being done to strengthen the party in those constituencies. We will also contest on Hindu majority seats. Because we have to get votes of all (not just Muslims).”
During his visit, Owaisi met Ahmedabad Congress councilor Shahzad Khan, and said that he did so because the latter worked hard against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Rejecting the Congress’s allegations that the AIMIM works as a “B-team” of the BJP, he asked why Gujarat has only three Muslim MLAs. He said that there should have been at least 10 to 11 Muslim MLAs in the state assembly and wanted to know who was responsible for the victory of a single candidate from the minority community in Gujarat since 1984.
“Can Congress explain why it loses again and again in Gujarat? Is it because of Muslim or non-Muslim votes? Not a single Congress candidate won the 2019 parliamentary elections (in Gujarat). Party leader Rahul Gandhi Lost in Amethi. How was he lost? We didn’t have any candidate to fight against him,” the AIMIM president said. “(Rahul Gandhi) wins from Wayanad (in Kerala) about 35 per cent because of minority voters (in that constituency). We are not concerned with the allegations of B-team, people are watching and they will decide.
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