India
pti-Deepika S
Kolkata, Feb 20: AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi will kick off his party’s poll campaign in West Bengal on February 25 with a rally in minority-dominated Metiabruz area of the city.
Owaisi, who after AIMIM’s good show in the 2020 Bihar assembly poll has announced that it will contest the Bengal election, has been discussing a possible alliance with Furfura Sharif cleric Abbas Siddiqui, who had recently floated the Indian Secular Front (ISF).
‘This will be our party supremo Assaduddin Owaisi’s first rally in the state in this poll season. He will kick off our party’s poll campaign in the state,’ AIMIM state secretary Zameerul Hasan said.
The Metiabruz seat in the city is minority-dominated and falls in Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha constituency which is represented by Abhishek Banerjee, the nephew of TMC supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.