Overview
- AIMIM is running independently after exclusion from the INDIA bloc, with reports diverging on its slate size at either 25 candidates or 32 for the two-phase Bihar polls on November 6 and 11 and results on November 14.
- Owaisi questioned Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s repeated references to ‘infiltrators’ and cited the Election Commission’s mass voter-roll deletions to ask what evidence of infiltration was found.
- He invoked former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s stay in India to mock the government’s rhetoric and argued that security agencies under the Home Ministry would be accountable if infiltration were occurring.
- On the trail in Kishanganj, he rejected Prashant Kishor’s advice to stay out of Bihar and campaigned for AIMIM nominees including Md Tauseef Alam, Ghulam Hasnain, and Shamsh Agaz.
- He attacked the BJP for fielding no Muslim candidates in its 101 seats and criticized the opposition for projecting Tejashwi Yadav as CM while arguing for proportionate Muslim representation, including the possibility of a Muslim chief minister.