Asaduddin Owaisi is the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader and has been representing the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency since 2004. Owaisi won the seat in the 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls. His father Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi won the seat six times in a row in 1984, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1998 and 1999. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Asaduddin Owaisi won the seat by defeating BJP candidate Dr Bhagavanth Rao with a margin of 2,82,186 votes. He was polled 5,17,471 votes with a vote share of 58.94%. In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Owaisi won the seat for the third time in a row by defeating Rao with a margin of 2,02,454 votes. He was polled 5,13,868 votes with a vote share of 52.88%. He defeated BJP candidate G Subash Chanderji and TDP candidate Zahid Ali Khan in the 2004 and 2009 Lok Sabha Elections. Owaisi is again contesting from the Hyderabad constituency in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2024 against BJP's Madhavi Latha. Owaisi also represented the Charminar Assembly seat twice in 1994 and 1999.
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Addressing a PC on Saturday, Owaisi said, "PM Modi led govt in an affidavit submitted in SC in 2020 had said that 'any coercion to have a certain number of children is counter productive and leads to demographic distortions.'
UP Minister Anil Rajbhar said that the AIMIM and SBSP alliance was an insult to the backward Rajbhar community.
Asaduddin Owaisi is a big leader of our nation. If he has challenged BJP for the 2022 Assembly elections, then BJP workers accept his challenge, UP CM Yogi Adityanath said.
Om Prakash Rajbhar has suggested that Asaduddin Owaisi can become the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Referring to the post-poll violence in West Bengal, the BJP MLA said President''s rule may be imposed in the state.
Rajbhar has been reaching out to various political opponents of the BJP including the AIMIM, the Krishna Patel-led Apna Dal and the Jan Adhikar Manch to form a political front.
The AIMIM has decided to contest on 100 of 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh in next year's Assembly polls.
BJP MLA from Loni, Nandkishor Gurjar, has filed a police complaint against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi in connection with the assault case of an elderly Muslim man.
BJP worker Zulfiqar Ali has responded to Asaduddin Owaisi's remark after the AIMIM chief took a jibe over his photo with PM Modi during an election campaign in poll-bound Bengal.
Mamata is facing one of the most difficult political challenges of her life. She is facing a stiff challenge from BJP in the poll after helming West Bengal for a decade.
Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday received the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, Covishield. Covishield is the Indian version of the AstraZeneca-Oxford drug.
Owaisi claimed that Muslims are being killed in encounters by the police in Uttar Pradesh. He said that out of 6,475 encounters of the criminals that took place in the state between 2017 and 2020, 37 per cent were Muslims.
Covishield and Covaxin are two anti-coronavirus vaccines approved by the DGCI for emergency use in India. PM Modi received a Covaxin jab.
Elections to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly are likely to be held in April-May.
The rally was to take place in the Muslim-dominated Metiabruz area of Kolkata - which falls in the parliamentary constituency represented by Abhishek Banerjee, who is Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew.
Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi's All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) marked its debut in Gujarat polls by winning seven seats in the civic body of Ahmedabad.
The Indian Secular Front (ISF) of Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui has joined the Congress-Left alliance for the upcoming Assembly polls in West Bengal.
According to reports, the Hyderabad-based party has stitched an alliance with Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) led by Om Prakash Rajbhar.
Buoyed by the party's performance in the Bihar Assembly elections, Owaisi has announced to contest elections in West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh.
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