Bihar polls: Owaisi forms new anti-BJP front

September 19, 2020 22:49

Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi headed All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen on Saturday tied up with the party of former Union minister Devendra Prasad Yadav for fighting upcoming Bihar Assembly elections and attacked Rashtriya Janata Dal for dubbing him 'spolier' of secular votes.

Addressing a press conference with Yadav in Patna, Owaisi said they have laid foundation of UDSA (United Democratic Secular Alliance) which would assess as on how many seats they should field candidates in the poll fray in the state.

Yadav is heading Samajwadi Janata Dal (D).

Coming down heavily on the RJD for dubbing him 'vote katwa' (spoiler of votes) of the secular forces, Owaisi asked what happened to these so called 'thekedars' (feudal lords) of the anti-BJP votes in the 2019 general elections in Bihar.

In reply to a question that the parties of the opposition grand alliance coalition are blaming him for trying to help the BJP by planning to field candidates in the October-November polls, Owaisi said 'they are playing old cassette'.

AIMIM contested only Kisanganj seat in the 2019 general election in Bihar and our candidate secured 3 lakh votes while that of the Janata Dal-United bagged 3.25 lakh votes and the winning Congress nominee garnered 3.50 lakh.

"Can we be dismissed as an insignificant player after this and winning a seat in the assembly bypoll?" he asked.

"What happened in 2019 Parliamentary election in Bihar...did the RJD claiming itself to be champions of the minorities and secular voters win any seat?" he said.

The National Democratic Alliance had won 39 out of total 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar in last general election while Congress managed to win one seat of Kisanganj.

Asked that the Bihar AIMIM president recently met RJD leaders reportedly for an electoral tie-up but the Lalu Prasad headed party did not give it any weight, Owaisi said 'the meetings were not as you are guessing.'

After gaining a toehold in the Bihar politics by winning an assembly seat in the Muslim dominated Kisanganj constituency early this year, the AIMIM is trying to increase its footprint in the state by planning to contest some seats in Seemanchal areas having sizeable minorities population. -- PTI

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