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Kolkata, Nov 19 (IANS) Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has started strengthening its organizational base in Malda and Murshidabad, two minority-dominated districts of West Bengal, in preparation to contest the 2026 assembly elections.
The party has a special eye on Malda. The state leadership of AIMIM has already started announcing the names of the party’s block presidents and block vice presidents in Malda to begin the campaign process in the district.
This is a move to field candidates from select minority-dominated constituencies in the state in the crucial assembly elections next year.
According to AMIM’s Malda district president Rezayul Karim, the party’s state leadership is confident of fielding candidates from all the 12 assembly constituencies in the district. He said the issues highlighted by the party during the campaign for the 2026 elections will be both state-specific at the macro level and district-specific at the micro level.
Karim said that at the state level, the issue to be highlighted would be corruption in the current Trinamool Congress ruled regime in West Bengal, the district level issue would be the poor state of social infrastructure in Malda district.
He said the state party leadership is confident of shifting voters from other parties to AIMIM in Malda.
Meanwhile, a state leader of the party said that apart from Malda, the party also plans to field candidates from select assembly constituencies adjacent to Malda and minority-dominated Murshidabad district. However, a decision has not yet been taken on the exact number of assembly constituencies in Murshidabad where AIMIM will field candidates in 2026.
In the past, the Trinamool Congress leadership had attacked AIMIM and accused it of acting as a puppet of the BJP in the elections by dividing minority votes.
However, in West Bengal, state AIMIM leader Nabiul Ansari has rejected the allegations of the state’s ruling party. According to him, in any election the party fields candidates from those constituencies where there is a possibility of victory and the same principle will be applicable in the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections.
–IANS
Source/DPB