Asaduddin Owaisi is the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader and has been representing the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency since 2004. Owaisi won the seat in the 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls. His father Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi won the seat six times in a row in 1984, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1998 and 1999. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Asaduddin Owaisi won the seat by defeating BJP candidate Dr Bhagavanth Rao with a margin of 2,82,186 votes. He was polled 5,17,471 votes with a vote share of 58.94%. In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Owaisi won the seat for the third time in a row by defeating Rao with a margin of 2,02,454 votes. He was polled 5,13,868 votes with a vote share of 52.88%. He defeated BJP candidate G Subash Chanderji and TDP candidate Zahid Ali Khan in the 2004 and 2009 Lok Sabha Elections. Owaisi is again contesting from the Hyderabad constituency in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2024 against BJP's Madhavi Latha. Owaisi also represented the Charminar Assembly seat twice in 1994 and 1999.
Read MoreAIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi tore apart a copy of the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha, registering a dramatic protest on a day it was introduced.
During a heated debate on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi targeted Union Home Minister Amit Shah and said that his name would be in the same league as Hitler's. Lok Sabha on Monday witnessed uproar as the government tabled the bill in the house.
Banerjee urged the Muslim community not to trust leaders visiting from outside and only repose faith on leaders from the state as they can only fight for the cause of the people of West Bengal
"Now she is having problem with Asaduddin Owaisi and the AIMIM. During the Nandigram movement in 2007, she herself had called him to Bengal and had sought his support. "But now as it is due to her policies that the BJP is gaining ground in Bengal, she is having problem with the AIMIM. This is nothing but political hypocrisy," Hasan said.
Rizvi's remarks against Owaisi have come after the AIMIM chief's views on the recent historic Supreme Court verdict in the Ayodhya dispute case. Owaisi has expressed his dissatisfaction with the Supreme Court verdict on the Ayodhya dispute.
"Not satisfied with the verdict. Supreme Court is indeed supreme but not infallible. We have full faith in the constitution, we were fighting for our right, we don't need 5 acre land as donation. We should reject this 5 acre land offer, don't patronize us," Asaduddin Owaisi said.
He was reacting to the acquittal of one of the accused in the 2008 Rampur CRPF camp attack case by a court in Uttar Pradesh on Friday. In a tweet on Sunday, the Hyderabad MP said, "Muslims are incarcerated in terror cases only to be acquitted after decades. We experience systemic discrimination in the criminal justice system regardless of the party in power
"Majlis is a movement & we have come a long way and have faced immense obstacles to get here I'd first like to thank every voter who voted for an @aimim_national.
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday took a dig at RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat over his remarks that Muslims in the country was happy, saying the Constitution and not "magnanimity of majority" determined it.
Owaisi questioned the basis on which 81-year-old Farooq Abdullah was detained. Owaisi rhetorically asked whether Abdullah became a threat to Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul- Muslimeen (AIMIM) MP Asaduddin Owasi vociferously oppose Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Bill in Lok Sabha on Tuesday. In a rhetotical manner, he asked whether the government wanted Muslims to sacrifice themselves."I stand to opppse the bill. BJP has definitely live up to the electoral promise in their manifesto. But you have not lived up to your constitutional duties. You've indulged in breach of a constitutional promise of Article 370," the AIMIM president said.
“PM Narendra Modi does not want Muslims to join the mainstream. Out of 300 MPs (of the BJP), not even one is from the Muslim community,” said the president of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM).
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi also opposed the bill. “Triple Talaq Bill is not in the interest of the Muslim women,” he said
During oath taking of Asaduddin Owaisi, Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, witnessed 'Jai Shri Ram' chants by its members. On this, the president of the AIMIM, in a lighter way, signalled MPs to chant even louder. As a result, the house witnessed some lighter moments.
Asaduddin Owaisi is a three-time Member of Parliament (MP), representing the Hyderabad constituency in Lok Sabha.
On the killing of two-year-old girl in Aligarh, Owaisi said nobody came out in support of accused Zahid and Aslam. "We are condemning all such incidents. Justice should be done in all cases, irrespective of the community the accused come from," he said.
TRS spokesperson Abid Rasool Khan claimed Friday the 12 MLAs decided to become part of the Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao-led outfit because of the development and welfare programmes of the government and "positiveness" of voters towards the ruling party.
AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi had earlier said that Muslims do not suddenly become 'second class citizens' of India after BJP's lanslide victory in elections. Naqvi said that such statements do not help anyone and under PM Narendra Modi eveyone feels secured.
Asaduddin Owaisi is a three-time Member of Parliament (MP), representing the Hyderabad constituency in Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament.
Counting of votes in the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency has begun. Asaduddin Owaisi has taken an early lead.
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