The Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and Chandrashekhar Aazad’s Azad Samaj Party (Kanshiram) on Thursday announced an alliance called the ‘Samajik Parivartan Morcha’ to jointly contest the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
The announcement was made by Aazad at a press conference in Lucknow, where AIMIM chief and Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi was also present.
Aazad said the alliance was open to other political parties, including the Samajwadi Party and the Congress, if they wanted to join hands to prevent the BJP from returning to power in Uttar Pradesh.
Describing the alliance as “large-hearted”, Aazad rejected the suggestion that it was a “third front”. He said the Samajik Parivartan Morcha could become a strong political platform for deprived, oppressed and marginalised communities.
“People have been calling it a third front, but it is not a third front. It is the Samajik Parivartan Morcha. If you understand its depth, you will realise that it is the first front,” he said.
Aazad said the alliance aimed to bring weaker and deprived sections of society together and help them gain political power through their collective electoral strength.
Referring to B R Ambedkar, Aazad said political power was the “master key” to solving people’s problems. He argued that communities without their own political organisations could not properly protect their interests, regardless of their population.
He also cited Ambedkar’s efforts to establish political organisations such as the Scheduled Castes Federation, the Indian Labour Party and the Republican Party of India, saying Ambedkar had realised that existing political parties would not adequately represent marginalised communities.
Aazad further alleged that successive governments had failed to deliver on promises to bring deprived communities into the mainstream, tackle poverty and prevent atrocities against them.
Bureau Report
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