AIMIM

Taking a jibe at the BJP’s ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ campaign ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said India wants an honest Prime Minister and not a ‘Chowkidar’.

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday opined that the next government at the Centre will not be formed without the support of regional parties.

In a reference to the government cancelling passports of 45 non-resident Indians for abandoning their wives, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi Tuesday said why not also stop them from contesting elections.

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi at an event in Thane said Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour, was conferred on Dr BR Ambedkar out of compulsion and not by heart

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has decided to withdraw a petition it had filed in the Bombay High Court, challenging the award of 16 per cent reservation to the Maratha community.

The Bombay High Court directed the Maharashtra government to file an affidavit in response to a petition by AIMIM MLA Imtiyaz Jaleel, challenging the reservation granted to the Maratha community.

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi took to Twitter to hit out at Pakistan PM Imran Khan over the latter’s remark that he would show the Narendra Modi government ‘how to treat minorities’. Owaisi said Khan should instead take a lesson from India’s inclusive politics and minority right.

Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh leader Prakash Ambedkar said here on Thursday that he wants an alliance with the Congress for the coming Lok Sabha and Assembly polls, but it will also have to include the AIMIM.

K Chandrashekar Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi, confident that it will secure another term, has decided to play hardball with the BJP which said on Sunday it was ready to support the TRS if it drops AIMIM and ‘‘seeks our support publicly.”

Telangana, India’s youngest state, goes to polls on December 7 and the counting of votes will be taken up four days later on December 11, following a tight contest.