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SP plans Maha Dharna to counter MIM
Samajwadi Party has grand plans to take on MIM in its home turf, to avert the Hyderabad-based party from gaining ground in UP. It plans Maha Dharna in the City, over the issue of Alair encounter by engaging social and political groups, opposed to MIM.
Hyderabad: Samajwadi Party has grand plans to take on MIM in its home turf, to avert the Hyderabad-based party from gaining ground in UP. It plans Maha Dharna in the City, over the issue of Alair encounter by engaging social and political groups, opposed to MIM.
Catching the pulse of Muslims in Telangana after the Alair encounter, the party’s Maharashtra president and MLA, Abu Asim Azmi has shown keen interest to hold Maha Dharna. Within days of the encounter, where five under trails were killed on April 7, he wrote a letter to Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, demanding him to launch a judicial probe and set 10 days deadline for the report.
“Since there is no serious action from the government over the demands, we shall be holding Maha Dharna in Hyderabad. A press conference would be held in this regard in Mumbai on May 16, where Muslim leaders and intellectuals from Hyderabad will be present,” said Azmi.
Ever since the MIM made advances into other States, particularly, where the Samajwadi Party was eying to garner support in the Muslim pockets, including neighbouring State of Maharashtra, Azmi has vehemently opposed MIM’s forays, perceiving it to be onslaught.
During recent Bandra by-poll, the SP leader had compared MIM with Shiv Sena, blaming them to be instigating polarisation amongst voters through their provocative statements. During 2014 Assembly polls, MIM had won two seats, including one in Mumbai.
After MIM made its intensions clear through various public meetings that it would be contesting 2017 Assembly polls in UP, the Samajwadi Party whose vote bank comprise majority of Muslims, felt threatened. It has planned to contest on at least 100 Assembly seats in UP, where there is sizeable Muslim population. It has targeted 25 districts, where it has already set up organisational units.
The party has blamed SP for its failure to keep up its promises like reservation, during its public meetings. According to political pundits, this move by Samajwadi Party in Hyderabad is nothing but an attempt to cut short the tentacles of the MIM by engaging groups opposed to the party in the City for preventing it from causing further trouble to the party in UP.
By:Md Nizamuddin
