Asaduddin Owaisi had announced that AIMIM will contest 100 seats in UP polls scheduled early next year.
Hyderabad (Telangana):
AIMIM denied reports of going for an alliance with the Samajwadi Party in the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.
Speaking to ANI, AIMIM Uttar Pradesh president Shaukat Ali said, We have never said that AIMIM will go for alliance with Samajwadi Party if Akhilesh Yadav makes a Muslim leader as deputy chief minister if the party comes into power in Uttar Pradesh. We clearly deny the reports stating that because neither I nor AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi made these statements. We said that SP has got 20 per cent of Muslim votes in the previous elections and came into power but they did not make any Muslim as deputy chief minister, he said.