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AIMIM to contest Bihar polls from Seemanchal

Elections. in India's 1st Elections website Home » Blog » AIMIM to contest Bihar polls from Seemanchal AIMIM to contest Bihar polls from Seemanchal By Deepak Parvatiyar September 18, 2015 5.00/5 (100.00%) 1 vote Much is being discussed over Asaduddin Owaisi’s All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) entry into Bihar this elections. Rightly so. His party’s debut in the Maharashtra assembly elections last year had upset many calculations as it had succeeded in weaning away a section of Muslim and Dalit voters in the state.  Out of the 24 seats that it had contested in the state, it had won two, which many considered to be a wake-up call for other political parties. Ever since, it has continued its good show in Maharashtra, penetrating wide and deep into the state’s political space. Only in April this year, in the elections to the 113-member Aurangabad Municipal Corporation, it won an impressive 25 of the 54 seats it contested. In the process, it ate up t