Ranchi: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi arrived here on a two-day visit to drum up support for his party’s electoral debut in Jharkhand. Earlier in August, AIMIM leaders in Hyderabad announced that the party has decided to test the electoral waters here.
Owaisi, the fire-brand leader and four-time MP from Hyderabad, will hold a series of meetings with socio-political groups and address a public meeting at Bariatu on Tuesday.
On his arrival at the Birsa Munda airport, Owaisi was received by hundreds of his supporters. He then met some party leaders at his reception at the airport and boarded his car guarded by personnel of Z plus security cover without making any statement. He simply said, “We shall meet tomorrow at the meeting ground.”
Ahead of Owaisi, the party’s central spokesperson and Jharkhand in-charge Asim Wakar arrived around noon and was also received by hundreds of party workers. At night, both the leaders held meetings with people of the minority community, advocates and tribal organisations, but did not share details of the meetings and those who attended were not shared.
AIMIM Jharkhand unit president Hubban Mallick said national leaders of the party are visiting the state for the first time and prepared to take part in the forthcoming assembly elections in a big way.
He said, “We are not here to polarise voters or to talk about one community. Our national president has brought in remarkable development in Hyderabad with focus on the youth and a similar effort is required for a state like Jharkhand where people are still poor despite rich mineral resources and other potentials.”
Stating that various multinational companies have started their operations in Hyderabad, Mallick said youngsters from Jharkhand need not migrate if a similar opportunity is provided to them in their own state as well.
Owaisi’s plan to expand its base in Jharkhand could alter political equations here. He has been vocal about the rights of minority and Dalits and often raised strong objections to communal statements. Recently, he had taken the BJP government in the state and the Centre head on by describing Tabrez Ansari lynching as one such incident in which a person of the minority community was targeted, forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and lynched because of administration failures. “If a Muslim is lynched for his cap in the name of beef or in the name of being a thief, is it going to help the nation become a five-trillion economy in any way,” he had asked in Parliament, referring to the Tabrez incident.
Owaisi, the fire-brand leader and four-time MP from Hyderabad, will hold a series of meetings with socio-political groups and address a public meeting at Bariatu on Tuesday.
On his arrival at the Birsa Munda airport, Owaisi was received by hundreds of his supporters. He then met some party leaders at his reception at the airport and boarded his car guarded by personnel of Z plus security cover without making any statement. He simply said, “We shall meet tomorrow at the meeting ground.”
Ahead of Owaisi, the party’s central spokesperson and Jharkhand in-charge Asim Wakar arrived around noon and was also received by hundreds of party workers. At night, both the leaders held meetings with people of the minority community, advocates and tribal organisations, but did not share details of the meetings and those who attended were not shared.
AIMIM Jharkhand unit president Hubban Mallick said national leaders of the party are visiting the state for the first time and prepared to take part in the forthcoming assembly elections in a big way.
He said, “We are not here to polarise voters or to talk about one community. Our national president has brought in remarkable development in Hyderabad with focus on the youth and a similar effort is required for a state like Jharkhand where people are still poor despite rich mineral resources and other potentials.”
Stating that various multinational companies have started their operations in Hyderabad, Mallick said youngsters from Jharkhand need not migrate if a similar opportunity is provided to them in their own state as well.
Owaisi’s plan to expand its base in Jharkhand could alter political equations here. He has been vocal about the rights of minority and Dalits and often raised strong objections to communal statements. Recently, he had taken the BJP government in the state and the Centre head on by describing Tabrez Ansari lynching as one such incident in which a person of the minority community was targeted, forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and lynched because of administration failures. “If a Muslim is lynched for his cap in the name of beef or in the name of being a thief, is it going to help the nation become a five-trillion economy in any way,” he had asked in Parliament, referring to the Tabrez incident.
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