Owaisi’s AIMIM Wins 5 Seats in Seemanchal Region
The party, which opened its Bihar account last year with a win in the 2019 bypolls won in Amour, Kochadhamam, Jokihat, Baisi and Bahadurgunj, where it had fielded Akhtarul Iman, Muhammed Izhar Asfi, Shahnawaz Alam, Syed Ruknuddin,, and Azhar Nayeemi, respectively. The Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen has won five assembly seats in Bihar with counting of votes still underway. The party, which opened its Bihar account last year with a win in the 2019 bypolls won in Amour, Kochadhamam, Jokihat, Baisi and Bahadurgunj, where it had fielded Akhtarul Iman, Muhammed Izhar Asfi, Shahnawaz Alam, Syed Ruknuddin,, and Azhar Nayeemi, respectively. Contesting on 24 seats in the Bihar polls in alliance with former Union minister Upendra Kushwaha-led RLSP, and the BSP, AIMIM had fielded candidates in a number of constituencies, especially those with a high percentage of Muslim voters. The opposition has been dubbing the AIMIM as 'BJP's B-team' arguing that the...