Owaisi's AIMIM opens account in Maharashtra!
Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM has opened its account in Maharashtra. The party has won the election on Malegaon Central seat. Mufti Mohammad Ismail has defeated his opponent from here. Actually the contest here was very interesting. He defeated Asif Sheikh Rashid of indian Secular Largest assembly maharashtra by just 162 votes.
Ismail got 109653 votes. At the same time, Asif Sheikh Rashid of indian Secular Largest assembly of maharashtra was at second place who got 109491 votes. SP's Shaan-e-Hind nihal Ahmed was at third place who got 9624 votes. Congress's Ejaz Beg Aziz Beg was at fourth place. Nine candidates got less votes than NOTA here. 1089 votes were cast in favor of NOTA on this seat. In the 2019 elections also, AIMIM was successful in winning the Malegaon Central seat. In 2019, Mohammad Ismail Abdul Khaliq won the election from Malegaon Central seat. This time AIMIM changed the candidate and it also benefited from it.
These two big leaders of Owaisi's party lost
Owaisi's party had fielded 14 candidates in Maharashtra. These included former mla Waris Pathan and former mp Imtiaz Jaleel. Imtiaz jaleel has lost the election from aurangabad East seat. He has been defeated by BJP's Atul Moreshwar Save. Save got 93274 votes while Imtiaz jaleel got 91113 votes. Waris Pathan stood fifth on the Bhiwandi seat. He got only 15800 votes. The winning candidate from here, Mahesh prabhakar Chougule of BJP, got 70172 votes.
Owaisi's rallies could not attract votes?
AIMIM has also lost the aurangabad Central seat which it had won last time. Nasiruddin Takiuddin Sadiq has lost from here. pradeep Shivnarayan jaiswal of shiv sena defeated him by 8119 votes. Owaisi brothers (Asaduddin and Akbaruddin) had held a series of rallies on the seats where AIMIM had fielded candidates. But the party does not seem to be benefiting from these rallies either.