The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen or AIMIM translation: All India Council of the Union of Muslims) is a recognized state political party based in Indian state of Telangana, with head office at old city of Hyderabad, which has its roots in the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen founded in 1927 in the Hyderabad State of British India.[3][4][5][6] AIMIM has held the Lok Sabha seat for the Hyderab
ad constituency since 1984. In the 2014 Telangana Legislative Assembly elections, the AIMIM won seven seats and received recognition as a `state party' by the Election Commission of India.[2][7] The AIMIM was initially a city-based party, with influence only in Old Hyderabad, but the party won two seats in the 2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election[8][9] and emerged as the second largest party in the Aurangabad municipal elections.[10] The party president and member of parliament Asaduddin Owaisi received the Sansad Ratna Award for 2014. The party has long been seen as a political representation of Hyderabadi Muslims in that state of Andhra Pradesh, and now Telangana.
