Asaduddin Owaisi

Owaisi said the shots were fired near a toll plaza, puncturing the tyres of his vehicle but he was safe

Gama, who joined AIMIM a few days ago after serving Samajwadi Party for 22 years, said, "SP is the party of capitalists; after serving 22 years in the party we did not get any rights".

The discussion that continued until the House was adjourned at 12:20 am saw attacks and counter attacks from Opposition and ruling-party members on government’s handling of COVID-19 situation, vaccination and the Omicron variant

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi warns of ‘Shaheen Bagh’ like protests if it did not withdraw the Citizenship Amendment Act.

"Over Rs 35,000 crore of our taxpayers’ money has been invested in developmental works of Afghanistan. Now the Taliban has come there. The changes in Afghanistan are not good for India,” Asaduddin Owaisi said in reply to a question on the effect of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan on UP politics.

AIMIM failed to win a seat out of the seven it contested in West Bengal. But, in last year's Bihar assembly elections, the party won five seats of the 20 it contested 20 in the Muslim-dominated Seemanchal region.

Asaduddin Owaisi said they will contest the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls in alliance with Om Prakash Rajbhar-led Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) and Bhaagidaari Sankalp Morcha, a front of smaller parties.

Tamil Nadu Election Result 2021 | Kovilpatti constituency: The constituency witnesses a three-cornered contest, between TTV Dhinakaran, AIADMK Minister Kadambur Raju and CPI(M)’s K. Srinivasan.

As part of the deal with the AMMK, the AIMIM has been allotted three Tamil Nadu seats with a significant Muslim population — Vaniyambadi, Sankarapuram and Krishnagiri. TTV Dhinakaran has said the AMMK would try and contest as many seats as possible.

Besides the CPI(M), DMK struck pacts with three local outfits, allotting them one seat each but they will contest on the Dravidian party's symbol in the April 6 assembly elections.

In early January, India’s drug regulator had approved two vaccines — Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin and the Oxford/AstraZeneca-developed Covishield, which is being manufactured by Serum Institute of India (SII) — for emergency use in the country.

The Hyderabad MP also asked the prime minister to be "large-hearted" and "understand pains" of the farmers, who have been protesting at borders of Delhi over the last two months demanding scrapping of the agri marketing legislations.

The Parliamentary Committee on Science and Technology, in its report submitted on February 3, called upon the government to effectively address the apprehensions.

The AIMIM's move to contest the West Bengal Assembly elections with local influential cleric may end up splitting the Muslim votes and thereby benefit the BJP, political observers said.

It is rare for a local body election to have assumed so much hype in recent times, so much so that the BJP deployed its top leadership, including its party president JP Nadda, a battery of Central ministers, including Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath to woo voters ahead of the polls.

Addressing a campaign meeting for the BJP ahead of the December 1 Hyderabad civic polls, Yogi Adityanath said that the city will be renamed Bhagyanagar if the saffron party is voted to power in the state.

Asaduddin Owaisi's statement comes amidst the BJP bringing in top party leaders -including Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath - for campaigning during the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) polls

Addressing an election rally at Habsiguda in Hyderabad, Telangana BJP leader Bandi Sanjay had said TRS and AIMIM were trying to win GHMC polls with Rohingyas, Pakistani and Afghan voters.

The party targets only areas dominated by Muslims. Of late, Muslims are, increasingly, getting elected from constituencies with a substantial Muslim population, which, an analyst said, was not the case before.

Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) fielded 16 of its 21 candidates in Seemanchal region and won five seats