Bengaluru: After winning four seats in two municipal corporations, AIMIM is now once again aiming to foray into the Bengaluru City Council.
As per reports, Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM had tried to make a foray into Karnataka but had been unsuccessful until the recent electoral victory in urban local body polls in north Karnataka. An AIMIM party spokesperson Zia Nomani said that in the coming Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) elections, which are due to be held, they will contest in at least 20 seats if not more.
Zia said, “we are already active in places like Shivajinagar, DJ Halli and Pulekshi Nagar, where we are able to work with the people and highlight the existing lacunas on the ground and how we plan to sort them. We have a strong women’s wing. “
“We are actively working in slum areas and are working on ensuring that they get vaccinated. We are very hopeful about doing good in these areas whenever elections take place,” she added.
It can be recalled that the BBMP elections have not taken place since September 2020 when the five-year term of the previous council ended. Currently, the BBMP polls are delayed as the State government is carrying out the delimitation exercise to increase the number of wards from the previous 198 to 243.
