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Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM mightiness person hoped for a amended onslaught complaint aft winning conscionable 1 of the 16 seats it contested successful Maharashtra. But the performance, successful presumption of the votes, suggests that it whittled down the votes of the Opposition MVA successful immoderate seats and adjacent trimmed the triumph margins successful immoderate others.
Another worrying inclination for the Congress, which sees itself arsenic the mainstream secular party, is that fixed an option, Muslims are consenting to look beyond it and its allies successful a peculiar constituency, where Owaisi’s AIMIM or different specified party, tin triumph due to the fact that of the community’s sizable strength.
However, keeping successful caput the MVA’s rout, the results would person been the aforesaid had the AIMIM been retired of the fray. Of the 16 candidates the enactment fielded, 12 were Muslims and 4 Dalits successful seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes. Last time, the AIMIM fielded 44 candidates and 2 of them won.
Malegaon Central, the lone spot the AIMIM ended up winning, has 78% Muslim voters. Mufti Mohammad Ismail won by conscionable 162 votes against Asif Shaikh Rasheed of the Indian Secular Largest Assembly of Maharashtra, with the SP’s Shaan e Hind Nihal Ahmed getting conscionable 9,624 votes. The BJP did not tract immoderate campaigner here. Four AIMIM candidates came 2nd successful their respective seats.
In Aurangabad Central, with implicit 38% of Muslim voters, wherever Shinde Sena’s Pradeep Jaiswal won by 8,119 votes, AIMIM campaigner Siddiqui Naseruddin Taquiuddin came 2nd bagging 77,340 votes. Shiv Sena (UBT) campaigner Balasaheb Thorat came third, securing 37,098 votes.
In Dhule city, the AIMIM’s Shah Farook Anwar came 2nd with 70,788 votes, with BJP’s Omprakash Agrawal winning by a borderline of 45,750 votes, and Sena UBT campaigner Anil Gote getting 24,304 votes. The spot has astir 22% Muslim voters. The results indicated that the AIMIM campaigner walked distant with a ample chunk of the votes that could person gone to the MVA nominee.
In Solapur City Central, which has adjacent to 25% Muslim electorate, BJP’s Devendra Kothe won by 48,850 votes, the AIMIM’s Farooq Shabdi came 2nd with 61,428 votes, and the Congress was reduced to 16,385 votes.
In Aurangabad East with much than 37% Muslim electorate, BJP’s Atul Save won by 2,161 votes. AIMIM’s Imtiaz Jaleel, its authorities president, got 91,113 votes and the Congress’s Lahu Hanumantrao Shewale came 3rd with conscionable 12,568 votes.
In Nanded South, Anand Tidke of Shinde Sena won by 2,132 votes, defeating the Congress’s Mohanrao Hambarde. The AIMIM’s Syed Momin Syed Mukhtar, however, chipped distant 15,396 votes successful a spot which has implicit 23% Muslim voters. Added to this, the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi’s Farooque Ahmed pulled retired 33,841 votes.
In Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar, successful which SP’s Maharashtra portion main Abu Azmi won by 12,753 votes, AIMIM campaigner Ateeque Ahmad Khan bagged 42,027, reducing Azmi’s winning margin. Shinde Sena’s Suresh Patil came 3rd with 35,263 votes.
In Karanja, BJP’s Sai Prakash Dahake defeated NCP (Sharad Pawar) campaigner Patni Gyayak Rajendra by a borderline of 35,073 votes successful the constituency which has adjacent to 21% Muslim voters. AIMIM’s Mohammad Yusuf Mohammad Shafi Punjani came 3rd and got 31,042 votes.
In the different seats, the AIMIM could not marque a dent that could change the results portion its SC candidates failed to enactment up an awesome performance.
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