Owaisi announces AIMIM to contest Tamil Nadu polls

Naveen S Garewal
Tribune News Service
Hyderabad, March 1 

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi has announced that his party will contest the April 6 assembly elections in Tamil Nadu.

Owaisi elaborated saying that he was looking at expanding the reach of his party at a national level.

The party has already won some seats in Maharashtra and Bihar.

The leader of the predominantly Muslim party said his party will contest the assembly elections in Tamil Nadu. The party gains strength from the fact that some AIMIM candidates won in Gujarat local body polls.

He said that he was going to Rajasthan today to review and speak with party members there to ensure that the party did well in the elections when they are held there. Uttar Pradesh would also be on the list for contesting the next elections, he added.

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.

Talking about 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 not like to comment on this just as yet but would highlight his party’s strategy when the time was right.