The BJP and Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM have formed an alliance in the Achalpur Municipal Council in Maharashtra's Amravati district, a report has claimed. It was ahead of the selection for the post of committee chairperson that the two bitter rivals reportedly supported each other.
The benefactor of the alliance was an AIMIM corporator who was also appointed chairperson of the Education and Sports Committee of the Achalpur Municipal Council, TV9 Marathi said in a report. This alliance has now become a major topic of discussion across the state.
According to the news report, three AIMIM corporators, two from the Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar), and three independents sided with the BJP for the polls. However, the report did not mention how the BJP benefited from this unheard-of coming together.
Asaduddin Owaisi's door-to-door campaign, as well as the hurt of narrow losses in previous polls, galvanised the workers of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) in the Maharashtra civic elections, resulting in the party winning 114 seats across the state, its leader Shareque Naqshbandi said here on Friday. The AIMIM won 33 seats in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, 21 in Malegaon, 15 in Amravati, 13 in Nanded, 10 in Dhule, eight in Solapur, six in Mumbai, five in Thane, two in Jalgaon, and one in Chandrapur. Winning 80 seats in earlier civic polls gave the party an idea of the temperament of the urban voter, which also helped, Naqshbandi told PTI.
Meanwhile, Vijay Ubale was on Wednesday picked as the party's group leader in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Ubale, a Hindu candidate for the AIMIM, won from ward number 140 with a margin of 4,945 votes. AIMIM state president Imtiaz Jaleel made the announcement about Ubale's appointment as the group leader in the BMC, the country's richest civic body.
