UP Election News: AIMIM promotes ‘secular’ side, fielded four Hindu candidates Meerut News – Times of India

Muzaffarnagar: Hyderabad based All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has so far given tickets to four Hindu candidates out of 27 who have fielded for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. One of the four candidates has been fielded from the communally sensitive Budhana assembly constituency of Muzaffarnagar.
State President of AIMIM Shaukat Ali “In the coming days, we will give more tickets to our Hindu brothers. We do not give tickets on the basis of religion. We are considered communal, but the truth is that the BJP itself does not give tickets,” he said. Muslim.”
Providing more details about the candidates, Ali said that Pandit Manmohan Jha Bhim Singh Balyan will contest from Sahibabad seat in Ghaziabad and Budhana seat. Vinod Jatvi From Hastinapur seat of Meerut and Vikas Srivastava from Ramnagar in Barabanki. AIMIM district president Intezar Ansari said, “It is not true that we are only a Muslim party. We have many Hindu workers in AIMIM.”
Meanwhile, when asked why BJP doesn’t give a chance to Muslims to contest elections on their party symbol, the party’s Muzaffarnagar MP Sanjeev Balyan said, “It is up to AIMIM or others who they want to give ticket, but BJP concentrates. on the victory of the candidate. Tickets will be given to Muslims if the party thinks they can win.
Meanwhile, former councilor Faisal Saifi said, ‘It is good that AIMIM is distributing tickets to non-Muslims also. This will help the party to promote a secular image and gain political mileage in future. Notably, the Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM has launched a new front ‘Bhagidari Parivartan Morcha’, which includes parties with support for Muslims, OBCs and Dalits for the state elections.

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