27/08/2021
Aimim- All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen is contesting the Kalaburgi City Corporation polls, and is busy campaigning for its candidates. While this may be the case, it appears that the party, with its headquarters in Darussalaam, Hyderabad, is looking at a much larger role, seeking to expand it footprint with its eyes on the Karnataka Vidhan Sabha elections.
At the moment, the party has fielded its candidates in 21 of the 55 wards. A team of senior party workers, corporators and cadre have been working on the ground. Party president Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday embarked on a padyatra seeking support for the party.
During the padayatra in Kalaburgi, popularly known as Gulbarga, on Wednesday Mr Owaisi reiterated the candidature of Ilyas Baghban from the North Kalaburgi Assembly segment. “After the success in the municipal elections, God willing, within a year and a half there will be the Assembly polls. It is from here, from your Assembly seat, that the Majlis had decided, and also informed you that we would field Ilyas Baghban from here,” he said, even as he condoled the death of former minister and then legislator from Kalaburgi North Qamarul Islam, who passed away in 2017.
Contesting civic polls now, the party eyes larger role