Dekho Dekho sher aaya: Mustafabad welcomes Tahir Hussain after five years

Amid chants of ‘jail ka jawab ballot se’ successful Sanjay Chowk, Hussain tells a assemblage of hundreds, “Friends, my look indispensable look acquainted to you. I person travel present to conscionable you aft 5 years. I person waited truthful agelong to spot you again… This Sanjay Chowk is wherever I began my life. These streets are my home. This is wherever I raised my family.”

“I was the crushed wherefore AAP was capable to unfastened its relationship successful Mustafabad… but erstwhile determination was a crisis, they abandoned me… But the AIMIM showed religion successful me,” helium adds. Hussain, who was expelled by AAP for his alleged relation successful the riots, had claimed that helium was a unfortunate of conspiracy.

“I person a imagination to amended roads, acceptable up schools and hospitals for the radical of Mustafabad,” helium says, eliciting a large cheer from the gathering.

As Hussain and his workers traverse astir the streets of Old Mustafabad, what catches the oculus are roads afloat of garbage and choked drains. Across each street, astir 15 feet from the ground, is simply a criss transverse of cables and enactment banners.

As portion of his roadshow, 3 autorickshaws with AIMIM flags and posters travel Hussain, who is showered with angiosperm petals from houses. A antheral holds a portable talker to denote – “dekho dekho kaun aaya, sher aaya, sher aaya”.

“Asalam walekum, specified sabhi bhaiyon ko,” says an AIMIM idiosyncratic arsenic helium shakes hands with everyone. His refrain – “Patang ka fastener dabaye (click connected the kite button, the awesome of AIMIM)”.

Hussain’s supporters tempest the country successful which helium is astir to springiness a speech, arsenic constabulary unit effort to power the assemblage with the assistance of AIMIM workers. Wiping his look of sweat, Hussain asks his supporters to unbend and marque mode for AIMIM person Imtiaz Jaleel. As Jaleel enters the room, the assemblage cheers loudly.

After the gathering, arsenic constabulary unit inquire the assemblage to disperse, AIMIM workers archer the gathering that the roadshow volition resume connected Thursday.

Throughout the day, not a connection is spoken astir the 2020 riots lawsuit for which helium Hussain was successful jail. On Tuesday, portion allowing him custody parole from January 29 to February 3 to campaign, the Supreme Court had barred him from making immoderate nationalist comments connected the merits of his case.

In the 2020 Delhi polls, AAP’s Haji Yunus had won from Mustafabad, defeating BJP’s sitting MLA Jagdish Pradhan. This time, AAP has fielded Adil Ahmad Khan and BJP has fixed a summons to five-time MLA Mohan Singh Bisht. The Congress summons has gone to Ali Mehdi, lad of Hasan Ahmed, a erstwhile legislator from Mustafabad.