UP polls: Asaduddin Owaisi takes the fight to BJP, to kick-start AIMIM's campaign from Ayodhya on September 7

Lucknow:  Asaduddin Owaisi is one who doesn't shy away from a political face-off. His angst with the Bharatiya Janata Party is known to all, given his vociferous orations in the Parliament or rallies in his den - Hyderabad.

Now, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief has decided to take the fight to the BJP, launching his party's 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections campaign from Ayodhya on September 7.

The Hyderabad MP will address a public gathering in Ayodhya's Rudauli next Tuesday for which upper caste Hindus, Muslims, Dalits and backward communities have all been invited.

"Not only Muslims but other communities too have been harassed and exploited by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre and in Uttar



Pradesh. The AIMIM has decided to fight for the rights of the people suppressed by the BJP government by organising a series of 'vanchit-shoshit samaj' conferences across Uttar Pradesh," AIMIM state president Shaukat Ali said.

Owaisi will address another gathering in Sultanpur and Barabanki on September 8 and September 9, respectively.

"These communities are looking for an alternative and the AIMIM emerged as a hope and voice of the deprived communities. The AIMIM will call upon the people to support it in the 2022 Assembly elections to form a government that works for the welfare and development of all the communities," Ali said, according to media news.

The AIMIM has announced that it will field its candidates on 100 Vidhan Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.