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Why Asaduddin Owaisi's absence from vote theft protests could hurt AIMIM in UP elections
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News18•07-10-2026, 14:36
Why Asaduddin Owaisi's absence from vote theft protests could hurt AIMIM in UP elections
- •Opposition parties led by the Congress held nationwide protests demanding the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged vote theft.
- •AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi skipped the joint protests, stating he has no business participating in them and criticizing the selection process of the Election Commissioner.
- •While Owaisi has also alleged vote theft and systematic deletion of Muslim voter names using Form 7 in Telangana, his distance from the opposition unity has raised political eyebrows.
- •Political analysts question if failing to join the protests will give opponents fresh ammunition to label AIMIM as the BJP's B-team ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
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Asaduddin Owaisi stated that he is not a part of the opposition protests because he believes the Chief Election Commissioner selection process itself is flawed and heavily favors the executive branch in a 2:1 ratio.
Asaduddin Owaisi alleged that the Telangana Chief Electoral Officer issued memo 868 and that pre-printed Form 7 applications were systematically used to delete 120 to 122 Muslim names at booth number 28 in the Goshamahal assembly constituency.
Because Owaisi often fields candidates in states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and did not join the recent protests against vote theft, secular opposition parties frequently accuse him of acting as the BJP's 'B-team'.
