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All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM)leader Asaduddin Owaisi has announced that his enactment volition contention the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections successful confederation with Humayun Kabir’s Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP).
The announcement assumes value arsenic it indicates a caller governmental grouping of number forces successful West Bengal. Mr. Kabir, a erstwhile Trinamool Congress MLA has gained prominence successful cardinal Bengal peculiarly Murshidabad territory implicit his calls to conception a mosque styled connected the lines of Babri Masjid. He had floated his outfit AJUP successful December 2025, aft being expelled from Trinamool Congress.
Mr. Owaisi made the announcement of going with AJUP connected Sunday (March 22, 2026) successful Hyderabad. He went connected to impeach West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of doing injustice to Muslims successful the authorities connected respective counts.
On Sunday (March 22), Mr. Kabir held a property league successful Murshidabad wherever helium announced names of candidates contesting connected 149 seats, including candidates for high-profile Bhabanipur and Nandigram constituencies. At Bhabanipur AJUP has fielded Poonam Begum, portion Shahidul Haque is the enactment campaigner from Nandigram
The AJUP president volition beryllium contesting from 2 constituencies successful Murshidabad—Rejinagar and Naoda. Peerzada Khoayeb Amin has been fielded from the Bharatpur constituency vacated by Humayun Kabir. Yasir Haider, the erstwhile son-in-law of authorities curate and Trinamool person and Minister Firhad Hakim, has been fielded from the Raninagar constituency.
Mr. Kabir has held talks with Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Indian Secular Front connected spot sharing successful the upcoming polls, but could not scope a consensus. The CPI(M) led Left beforehand has allied with ISF and different near parties similar CPI(Marxist- Leninist) Liberation for the upcoming polls. The Congress enactment has decided to spell unsocial successful the elections.
These electoral understandings and confederation are important arsenic they airs a information for Trinamool Congress for splitting the enactment Muslim ballot slope that has firmly supported it since 2011 assembly polls. Mr. Kabir said that maintaining instrumentality and bid and communal harmony successful the authorities are the main issues that his enactment is utilizing successful the elections.
In 2021 Assembly polls the AIMIM tried to trial governmental waters successful West Bengal by warming up to ISF but could not forge immoderate statement and the ISF went with Left Front and Congress. Language remains a situation for AIMIM which is considered a enactment of Urdu speaking Muslims, whereas astir of the 27 % Muslim electorate successful West Bengal has Bengali arsenic their parent tongue.
