New Delhi: Consolidating the beneficial properties it had made within the final meeting elections in 2020, Asaduddin Owaisi’s get together, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), has gained 5 of the 25 seats it contested in Bihar. All 5 seats are within the Muslim-dominated Seemanchal area.

Additional, in at the least three seats in Seemanchal, it has lower into the votebank of the INDIA alliance, which it had provided to be part of within the run-up to the elections.

Whereas the Mahagathbandhan is main in solely three seats in Seemanchal (2 Congress, 1 RJD), the NDA has swept the area.

Of the 24 Meeting seats in Seemanchal, BJP is main in eight, JD(U) is main in 5 and the LJP is main in 3 seats, respectively.

Final election, a serious purpose the Mahagathbandhan fell wanting a majority was the spoiler function performed by the AIMIM, which contested 19 seats and gained 5, though 4 of its MLAs then crossed over to the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)—prompting many political observers to suspect that the AIMIM was appearing just like the “B-team” of the Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA).

Within the 2020 Meeting election, the BJP bagged eight seats in Seemanchal, its ally JD(U) gained 4, whereas the Congress secured 5. The CPI(ML) and the RJD managed one seat every. The AIMIM sprang a shock, profitable 5 constituencies within the area.

The Seemanchal area shares borders with West Bengal and can also be near the worldwide border with Bangladesh, making the BJP’s “ghuspaithiya” (infiltrator) narrative a degree of concern for the Muslim inhabitants.

This time, so as to dispel perceptions of being the NDA’s “B-team”, the Owaisi-led get together had provided to affix the Mahagathbandhan—a suggestion that was not taken up by the opposition alliance.

(Edited by Viny Mishra)

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