RJD urges AIMIM to stay out of Bihar polls to help defeat BJP
Asaduddin Owaisi
not to field candidates in Bihar and avoid splitting the secular votes if he wanted the
BJP
to lose the assembly election.
Jha told reporters in Patna on Friday that not contesting elections is also helpful.
"Owaisi knows this and his advisors also know it. If your intention is to defeat BJP and defeat the politics of hatred, then the decision of not contesting the
Bihar elections
will also be a similar one," the RJD MP said.
Earlier, RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Friday shared on social media the letter written to his party chief Lalu Prasad by
AIMIM
state president Akhtarul Iman to seek public opinion whether the opposition Mahagathbandhan should include the party led by Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi to contest the Bihar election.
Iman had written to Lalu on July 2, requesting him to include AIMIM into the opposition bloc of RJD, Congress, Left and VIP to defeat BJP and avoid the split of votes. Owaisi also expressed this desire saying the opposition blames AIMIM for splitting anti-BJP votes in every election.
Tejashwi, who is the opposition bloc coordination committee chairman, already has to face tough negotiations on seat sharing with Congress, Left and VIP of Mukesh Sahani.
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Though AIMIM has a substantial support base in the Muslim-dominated Seemanchal region and won five seats in the 2020 elections, Tejashwi will find it difficult to accommodate Owaisi's party, which will mean slicing the other alliance partners' seats.
Iman on June 30 said the AIMIM was exploring options to float a third front as his request to RJD and Congress fell on deaf ears and he had no choice but to contest the coming election with other like-minded people.
Iman also had a meeting with Akhil Bhartiya Paan Mahasangh president I P Gupta, who claims his Tanti-Tantwa community has 5 crore population in the country. But after that, Iman made another attempt by writing a letter to Lalu.
In the 2020 assembly elections, Owaisi had formed the Grand Democratic Secular Front with Mayawati's BSP, Upendra Kushwaha's then RLSP and some other small parties. Then AIMIM contested 19 seats and won 5 from three districts of Seemanchal. Tejashwi later included 4 of the AIMIM MLAs in RJD.
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