AIMIM to fight UP Assembly polls, Owaisi joins Rajbhar’s front

Lucknow:  Buoyed by his party’s showing in the Bihar Assembly polls, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday announced his party’s intention to fight the next state elections in Uttar Pradesh as part of a front led by Om Prakash Rajbhar, a former BJP ally.
“We are now part of Mr Rajbhar’s morcha, he told PTI after meeting the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief here.
Today I met him. So we will go along with him. We will go with the ‘Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha, the Hyderabad-based leader said, referring to the front of smaller parties formed in Uttar Pradesh about a year back.
The SBSP chief confirmed the development.
“We will contest the 2022 UP Assembly elections together. Till yesterday, people used to say that O P Rajbhar is all alone, and what can he do? he told reporters. Now, Owaisi ji has come. We will show our strength to the heavyweights.” The `morcha’ also includes former Bahujan Samaj Party leader Babu Singh Kushwaha’s Jan Adhikar Party, Babu Ram Pal-led Rashtra Uday Party, Anil Singh Chauhan-led Janta Kranti Party and Premchand Prajapati’s Rashtriya Upekshit Samaj Party.