AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and Azad Samaj Party (Kanshiram) president Chandrashekhar Azad on Thursday announced an alliance, named Samajik Parivartan Morcha, for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, with Azad as its chief ministerial candidate.
The announcement was made at a joint press conference in Lucknow, where the two leaders said the alliance would seek to bring together Dalits, Muslims, backward communities and other marginalised sections.
Owaisi said the alliance would work towards preventing the BJP from returning to power in Uttar Pradesh for a third consecutive term.
Azad said the alliance was open to other political parties, including the Samajwadi Party and Congress, if they wished to join the platform to challenge the BJP.
Rejecting the description of the grouping as a third front, Azad said it was a political platform for deprived and oppressed communities.
He also invoked B R Ambedkar, describing political power as the “master key” to addressing people's problems.
Taking a dig at Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Owaisi said he would not become the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and accused him of practising entitlement politics.
The alliance comes after Owaisi's efforts to secure a place in the INDIA bloc's seat-sharing arrangement in Uttar Pradesh failed to materialise.
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