The Hyderabad-based All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) is gradually expanding its footprints across the country.
The AIMIM, which has eight assembly seats and an MP seat in Telangana, has already made its presence felt in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. It also announced its intentions to contest the West Bengal assembly elections.
On Monday, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi announced that his party also contest the ensuing assembly elections in Tamil Nadu. The party would identify seats where it had fair chances of winning and finalise the candidates, he said.
“Some of our candidates won in Gujarat local body polls. I’ll be going to Rajasthan today to review and speak with party members. Our party workers are also working hard in Uttar Pradesh,” Owaisi said.
The Tamil Nadu assembly elections will be held in a single phase on April 6 and the counting of votes will be done on May 2. As many as 6,28,23,749 electors will choose candidates for the sixteenth legislative assembly in the state.
When asked about the Indian Secular Front’s (ISF) Abbas Siddiqui sharing the stage with the Left and Congress in a rally in Kolkata on Sunday, the AIMIM chief said he would speak about his party’s strategy in West Bengal when the time is right.
