He Imtiaz Jaleel, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MP He has said that all political parties need the votes of the Muslim community but do not want its leadership, according to the PTI.
Addressing an election rally at Sajapur in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Imtiaz Jaleel claimed that no one from the Muslim community was fielded in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in 11 states of the country, according to PTI.
Imtiaz Jaleel is contesting elections from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in Maharashtra (formerly Aurangabad), a seat he won in 2019.
The constituency will go to polls on May 13 in the fourth phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
“All political parties in the country need their votes, but they do not want Muslim leadership. Major political parties have not fielded Muslim candidates in Maharashtra, and there are 11 states where the nomination was not given to Muslims,” the AIMIM leader said. , according to PTI.
Imtiaz Jaleel further pointed out that there were no Muslim MPs in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Goa and Delhi.
“If we don’t contest, how will we win? When I contested the Lok Sabha elections in 2019, the city leaders said I can’t win. But people supported us,” he said.
Imtiaz Jaleel defeated Shiv Sena undivided candidate Chandrakant Khaire by a margin of 4,492 votes in the 2019 elections. Independent candidate Harshawardhan Jadhav had polled 2.83 lakh votes and contributed to Khaire’s defeat, the news agency reported. news on Saturday.
Earlier, Imtiaz Jaleel, who is also president of the party’s Hyderabad-based Maharashtra unit, was interested in contesting from one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Mumbai, but AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi re-nominated the journalist turned politician from his current seat, which will go to the polls on May 13 in phase four.
Imtiaz Jaleel had expressed interest in contesting one of the Lok Sabha seats in Mumbai and sent a proposal to the party leadership in this regard. The Lok Sabha member did not respond to phone calls seeking reaction on the new appointment from his seat.
The constituency has 30,32,546 registered voters, including 41,465 newly registered voters, and they will cast their votes at 2,040 booths, an official said, the news agency reported on Monday.
(with PTI inputs)