MIM spreading wings; wins 2 seats in Maha, 1 in Bihar

Hyderabad: Hyderabad headquartered All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen (MIM) has made a breakthrough in Bihar by winning the by-poll for Kishangunj while pocketing two seats in Maharashtra.
However, it has lost the Aurangabad constituency which Imtiaz Jaleel had vacated to fight and win the Lok Sabha election from the same city. It also suffered a setback in the previously held Byculla in Mumbai which was controlled by Waris Pathan.
AIMIM candidate Mufti Ismail Abdul Khalique made an entry through Malegaon Central defeating sitting Congress MLA Asif Shaikh. Another candidate of MIM, Shah Faruk Anwar, defeated Rajwardhan Kadambande, an independent candidate, in Dhule. Both the candidates had joined the party quitting NCP a few months before the assembly polls.
Times of India quoted state MIM chief Imtiaz Jaleel as saying, “It’s a great achievement for our party. Asaduddin Owaisi, our party chief, was our trump card and his rallies swayed the voters. We will continue to strengthen our base in northern Maharashtra.” The party had fielded 44 candidates for Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.
MIM during the past couple of years had even won several seats in the civic polls in Malegaon, Dhule and Jalgaon.