Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen’s (AIMIM) efficiency in Uttar Pradesh elections is being thought of as an enormous failure. The social gathering managed to bag simply 4.51 lakh or 0.49% of votes in the nation’s largest state with 15.02 crore voters.
The Hyderabad-based social gathering contested on 95 seats however didn’t win any of the seats in the state. Apart from Mubarakpur seat in Azamgarh district, AIMIM candidates misplaced their deposits in all the seats the social gathering contested. In Mubarakpur seat the social gathering had fielded two-term sitting BSP MLA Shah Alam alias Guddu Jamali who joined AIMIM in November final 12 months.
However, a better look at ballot knowledge exhibits that even in its loss, the social gathering efficiently broken Samajwadi Party-led alliance candidates’ prospects in at least 7 seats and got here nearer to mar the Akhilesh-led social gathering’s possibilities in few others. In a approach regardless that it scored a duck, it succeeded in dividing Muslim votes in as many as seven seats.
For occasion, in the Moradabad Nagar seat the place BJP candidate Ritesh Kumar Gupta secured 148,384 votes and gained by a slender margin of 782 votes in opposition to SP’s Mohammad Yusuf Ansari. AIMIM Waqi Rasheed secured 2,661 votes in the constituency.
All the main opposition contestant in opposition to BJP’s Gupta had been from Muslim group. Had the Muslim votes not divided it will have been nearly unattainable for BJP’s candidate to win the seat. BSP candidate Irshad Hussain acquired 14,013 votes whereas Congress’ Rizwan Quereshi cornered 5,351 votes.
In the Kursi Assembly seat of Barabanki, sitting BJP MLA Sakendra Pratap Verma’s victory margin in opposition to SP’s Rakesh Kumar Verma was simply 217 votes. Had AIMIM’s Kumail Ashraf Khan not reduce 8,541 largely Muslims and anti-BJP votes, the story is the seat would have been completely different.
Dr. Dharam Singh Saini of the SP misplaced in opposition to BJP’s Mukesh Chaudhary from Saharanpur’s Nakur seat by a margin of 315 votes. Here, Rizwana of the AIMIM secured 3,593 votes.
In Jaunpur’s Shahganj seat, SP’s Shailendra Yadav Lalai misplaced by a margin of 719 votes. Here too AIMIM candidate Nayab Ahmad Khan captured 8,128 votes. Congress too had fielded a Muslim candidate from the seat who secured 1,529 votes.
AIMIM’s Mirja Akram Beg from Sultanpur Sadar seat acquired 5,251 votes. The victory margin of BJP candidate Vinod Singh over Anoop Sanda of the SP was 1,009 votes.
BJP’s sitting MLA Dinanth Bhaskar in Bhadohi’s Aurai reserved seat secured 93,691 votes and defeated Anjani Saroj of the SP by a skinny margin of 1,647 votes. Tedhai, the AIMIM candidate acquired 2,190 votes right here.
In the Bijnor seat, the victory margin of BJP candidate Suchi over RLD’s Neeraj Chaudhary stood at 1,445 votes. Munir Ahmad of Owaisi’s social gathering acquired 2,290 votes right here.
In among the different seats AIMIM candidates scared SP nominees. A case in level is Sultanpur’s Isauli seat the place AIMIM candidate acquired 3,308 whereas the victory margin of the SP candidate in opposition to BJP’s candidate was simply 269 votes. A barely higher efficiency by Owaisi’s candidate would have ended the SP candidate’s probability right here.
Raniganj seat in Pratapgarh district elected SP candidate Rakesh Kumar Verma by a margin of two,649 votes. However, AIMIM’s Anil Kumar too secured 11,748 votes right here and any higher efficiency right here may have come at the price of SP’s Muslim votes.
Similar story performed out in Ram Nagar and Domariyaganj seats the place a barely improved efficiency by AIMIM candidates would have dented SP’s victory possibilities from these seats.
In Bijnor’s Dhampur seat it was the Congress Muslim candidate who spoilt SP’s change. BJP candidate from the seat Ashok Kumar Rana made a document by successful the ballot by the slimmest margin of 203 votes in opposition to Naim Ul Hasan of the SP right here. Congress candidate from the seat Hussain Ahmad acquired simply 790 votes however he succeeded in dividing the Muslim votes ensuing into BJP’s victory.
Another silver lining for the Hyderabad-based social gathering was that it carried out a lot better than the Congress social gathering in the seats it contested. In the 95 seats the place each the events had been contesting, AIMIM candidates scored over Congress nominees in 58 seats; In simply 36 seats Congress candidates remained forward of Owaisi’s candidates.
Overall, in these 95 seats, Congress acquired 3,13,577 votes whereas AIMIM secured 4,50,929 votes i.e. 1,38,533 or 44% extra votes than the Grand Old Party.
Besides, the Party additionally barely improved its efficiency from the final meeting polls when it had secured somewhat over two lakh votes with 0.24% share. This time round it has raised its vote share to 0.49%.
The Party based in 1920 has of late began making electoral strikes exterior its dwelling base Hyderabad and has a combined success. In 2019 Lok Sabha polls it gained the Aurangabad seat in Maharashtra, its first seat exterior Hyderabad. Later in the state meeting polls it retained two seats.
In 2020, it gained 5 meeting seats in Bihar. However, the social gathering couldn’t do a lot in the meeting polls held final 12 months in Bengal or Tamil Nadu.
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