MIM announces first list of Maharashtra candidates

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has announced its first list of candidates, who will contest the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections.

The party announced the candidatures of Daniel Ramesh Landge from Vadgaonsheri in Pune, Mufti Mohammed Ismail Abdul Khaliq from Malegaon Central and Mohd. Feroz Khan from Nanded North.

Earlier in the day, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi spoke to the media and condemned the National Security Advisor Ajit Doval’s reported statement on Kashmir, linking restrictions in the State to Pakistan. “What does Kashmir have to do with Pakistan?” Mr Owaisi said, as he reiterated his opposition to



the abrogation of Article 370.

Mr Owaisi criticised the 100 days of the Modi government’s second term. He said that the country has witnessed 35 days of restrictions in Kashmir, a slowdown of economy and GDP and an ailing automobile industry in the first 100 days.

Reacting to questions on Pakistan’s former legislator from the Tehreek-e-Insaaf Party Baldev Kumar seeking asylum in India, Mr Owaisi said that it was for the government to decide. However, he sought to know how an elected member could face discrimination. He then demanded that India sign the United Nation’s Refugee Convention of 1951.