Overview

• Asaduddin Owaisi said AIMIM will not join the Congress-led INDIA bloc for the November Bihar polls, calling such overtures “one-sided love.”
• He endorsed the formation of a third front following Bihar unit chief Akhtarul Iman’s proposal to consolidate marginalised groups.
• AIMIM plans to contest independently in Muslim-majority Seemanchal, where it won five seats in 2020 but lost four MLAs to the RJD.
• Owaisi accused mainstream opposition rivals of spreading lies to prevent leaders of the poor and oppressed from gaining power in Bihar.
• He criticized the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls, warning it could function as a hidden NRC and disenfranchise vulnerable communities.