Owaisi’s AIMIM pronounces listing of 25 candidates for Bihar polls

The listing, which incorporates the title of Akhtarul Iman, the State president of AIMIM and its lone MLA in Bihar, was shared by the get together on X.

“We are happy to announce the list of AIMIM candidates for the upcoming Bihar elections. The candidates were finalised by AIMIM’s Bihar Unit, in consultation with the party’s national leadership. Inshallah, we will be a voice of justice for Bihar’s weakest and most neglected,” stated the publish on X.

Mr. Iman has been renominated from Amour, the place 2020 runner-up Saba Zafar was changed by Sabir Ali, a former Rajya Sabha MP who was expelled from the get together 11 years in the past, by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U).

Most of the seats contested by the get together fall, predictably, within the Seemanchal area, the State’s flood-prone north-eastern half, which has a excessive proportion of Muslim inhabitants.

Besides, the get together has fielded Manoj Kumar Das from Sikandra, a reserved seat within the south-central district of Gaya. Sitting MLA Prafull Kumar Manjhi, who belongs to Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM), is aiming at a second consecutive time period from the seat.

In the Dhaka constituency of East Champaran, which borders Nepal, the get together has given a ticket to Rana Ranjeet Singh, brother of former Minister and BJP MLA Rana Randheer Singh, who’s aiming at a hat-trick from the adjoining Madhuban. The BJP candidate from Dhaka is sitting MLA Pawan Kumar Jaiswal.

In the final Assembly polls, the get together had contested 19 seats, successful 5 of these, however 4 of its MLAs later joined the RJD.

The get together had written letters to RJD president Lalu Prasad and his son and inheritor obvious Tejashwi Yadav, stating that it was keen to contest the polls as an INDIA bloc constituent this time. The missives elicited no response.