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Lucknow: Secular parties want Muslim leaders to be their slaves, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi has claimed, rejecting allegations that his party helps the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by splitting Opposition votes...
Speaking to ThePrint, Owaisi, whose AIMIM has tied up with OBC party Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) and smaller parties like the Rashtra Uday Party (RUP) of Babu Ram Pal and the Pragatisheel Manav Samaj Party (PMSP) of Prem Chand Bind for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, called the INDIA blocs claim that it stands for marginalised PDA groups a joke...
PDA stands Picchde, Dalit, and Alpsankhyak or the backward, Dalit, and minority group the same section that the AIMIM-led PDM (for Picchde, Dalit, and Muslims) Nyay Morcha claims to represent...
In a wide-ranging interview with ThePrint, Owaisi spoke about his partys object of defeating the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the possibility of an alliance with the Congress in Telangana, and his suspicions on the death of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari..
He also said he wondered why the allegation of dividing Muslim votes was never levelled against the Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), neither of which had made significant gains in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections...
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