The All India Majilis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) party, has registered victory in two seats in the Tamil Nadu Urban local body election. The party, contesting for the first time, has got two seats.
The party won two wards in Vaniyambadi municipality where elections were held on February 19. Niyamatullah and R. Nabeela were the two AIMIM candidates elected to the 36-member municipality.
The party managed to win the seats, fighting the candidates of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), which is an alliance of the DMK, the ruling party in Tamil Nadu.
Nabila secured 50.46 per cent votes in ward number 19, while Nematullah polled 34.10 per cent votes in ward number four.
Sources say the party in charge Rehmatullah Tayyab and party corporator in Hyderabad Rashiduddin Faraz had campaigned for the candidates. AIMIM Tamil Nadu unit president T. S. Vakeel Ahmed thanked people for electing two-party candidates.
The victory in two municipal wards in Tamil Nadu came amid AIMIM’s continuing efforts to expand to various states.
However, the party failed to secure victory in the assembly election held in March 2021. The party, in alliance with AMMK led by Dinakaran, fielded candidates in three constituencies but failed to win.
Further, the party’s win in Tamil Nadu comes as a fourth representation in the municipality politics after Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
AIMIM has two MPs each from Telangana and Maharashtra and 14 MLAs – seven in Telangana, five in Bihar and two in Maharashtra.
According to the report by IANS, it is said that the win in Tamil Nadu for AIMIM came amid the party’s attempts to open its account in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi is running a hectic campaign in Uttar Pradesh. The party has announced plans to contest 100 seats in Uttar Pradesh.
As for the Muslim parties that contested in the urban local body election concerned, Indian Union Muslim League, in town panchayats, won 12 while the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) won 21 seats comprising 1, 8 and 17 in a corporation, municipality and town panchayat respectively.
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