Hyderabad: Because the curtain got here down on the nominations section of the Jubilee Hills by-poll in Telangana on Tuesday, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) is extending a tacit assist to the Congress social gathering by sitting out the elections.

That is at a time when AIMIM chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi is fielding his candidates in Bihar, a transfer seen as harming the Mahaghatbandhan prospects within the subsequent month’s state elections.

Talking to reporters Tuesday, the AIMIM chief asserted that there could be no connection, or comparability between a state election the place a brand new authorities will likely be fashioned and a by-poll with no penalties on the political circumstances in Telangana.

Owaisi claimed that regardless of his social gathering writing to Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Lalu Prasad of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the Left social gathering leaders for changing into a part of the Mahaghatbandhan and later writing to Tejashwi Yadav searching for to contest on six seats, there was no beneficial response.

“So, we’ll struggle on our personal, proper? We had already gained 5 seats earlier than. We’re within the Bihar fray in alliance with Chandrashekhar Azad and Swami Prasad Maurya’s events. Don’t join a by-poll to a state meeting election. I don’t wish to touch upon such immature comparisons,” Owaisi stated.

The AIMIM has fashioned a third-front alliance with Azad’s Azad Samaj Occasion and Swami Prasad Maurya’s Apni Janata Occasion to contest in Bihar.

“No candidate of AIMIM is within the (Jubilee Hills by-poll) contest. If anybody, (be it an) Impartial candidate, is utilizing our social gathering identify, symbols, we’ll complain to the EC,” Owaisi stated just about a Muslim candidate allegedly claiming the AIMIM’s assist by way of some movies.

Although not asserting it emphatically, Owaisi’s has been speaking in assist of Congress candidate Naveen Yadav, who was as soon as an AIMIM candidate within the constituency. In 2014, AIMIM’s Yadav got here the runner-up, whereas Maganti of the BRS gained.

To media queries on the social gathering headquarters, Owaisi stated, “he appeals the Jubilee Hills public, who supported the BRS for the final 10 years, to elect a younger Naveen to see growth.”

In 2018 polls, when the AIMIM didn’t contest in Jubilee Hills, an meeting phase in central Hyderabad with over one lakh Muslim votes, Yadav stood as an unbiased and got here third. Maganti gained once more. The BRS chief scored a hat-trick in 2023. Yadav, nonetheless, didn’t contest that 12 months.

Yadav filed his nomination papers Friday. He later met with Owaisi throughout a go to within the constituency.

Owaisi then instructed reporters that he suggested Yadav to take an inclusive strategy, reaching out to folks of all communities who collectively kind the three.98 lakh citizens of Jubilee Hills.

In a public assembly lately, the AIMIM chief stated that the constituency witnessed little growth or enchancment in civic facilities below Maganti regardless of the BRS being in energy for 2 phrases. He had then urged the voters to take a “good determination and assist a younger and native candidate.”

This time, the BRS has fielded Maganti’s widow Sunitha. BJP’s candidate is Lankala Deepak Reddy, who got here third within the 2023 polls.

In the meantime, BRS leaders are saying that AIMIM’s contradictory stand in Bihar and right here is complicated folks.

“Voters are confused over the AIMIM’s election methods and beliefs since it’s attempting to assist the BJP in Bihar not directly by fielding its candidates, whereas not doing so in Jubilee Hills and supporting the ruling Congress,” BRS MLA Ok.P.Vivekanand stated.

(Edited by Tony Rai)