AIMIM holding out olive branch to SP

Asaduddin Owaisi, chief of the All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), has finally extended an olive branch to the Samajwadi Party (SP).

After mounting a vicious attack on SP President Akhilesh Yadav in Azamgarh earlier this year, the AIMIM now said that it has no objection if the Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha (of which it is a constituent) decides to enter into an alliance with the party for the 2022 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

AIMIM is one of the 10 political parties which have joined hands under the banner of Morcha, led by Om Prakash Rajbhar, the president of Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP). This is the first time that there has been any talk of the AIMIM coming together with the SP.

"If Rajbhar, the convenor of the Morcha, decides that it should enter into an alliance with the SP, our party will abide by the decision," said AIMIM state president Shauquat Ali.