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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nNEW DELHI: AIMIM<\/a> chief Asaduddin Owaisi<\/a> on Thursday said his party was open to forming an electoral alliance with other political parties in Uttar Pradesh ahead of next year\u2019s Assembly elections, saying it did not want the BJP<\/a> to return to power in the state for a third consecutive term.Addressing a press conference, Owaisi said AIMIM would contest the elections \u201cwith all our force\u201d and would announce any alliance once it was finalised.\u201cWe don’t want the BJP to come to power in Uttar Pradesh for the third time. In order to stop this from happening, we are open for alliance. What else can we say?\u201d Owaisi said, according to new agency PTI.He referred to AIMIM\u2019s experience in Bihar, where four of the party\u2019s five MLAs joined the RJD in June 2022. The move enabled the RJD to reclaim its position as the single largest party in the Bihar Assembly.Owaisi said AIMIM had sought only six seats in Bihar previously and alleged that its concerns had not received the same political attention as similar developments involving other parties.\u201cWe fought again and people voted for us. We bagged five seats there,\u201d he said.\u201cIt is up to them (political parties in UP) now. We will contest the elections there with all our force, and whenever an alliance happens, we will let you know. We will decide our fate and make our leadership,\u201d Owaisi added.The Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections are scheduled to be held early next year to elect all 403 members of the House.<\/p>\n Owaisi also criticised political parties that have attributed electoral defeats both to AIMIM\u2019s presence in contests and to alleged vote theft.\u201cThe opposition once said that they lost the elections because we (AIMIM) were in the fray. Sometimes, they say that they lost the elections because of vote theft. How is this possible? They should be clear,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Owaisi also criticised the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in some states and alleged that the move was aimed at turning India into a \u201cHindu Rashtra\u201d.He claimed that the UCC laws in Uttarakhand, Assam and Gujarat were a \u201ccut and paste\u201d of the Hindu Marriage Act and Hindu Succession Act, and questioned their applicability to Muslims.\u201cThe Maharashtra government is working on UCC now. But the laws in Uttarakhand, Assam and Gujarat are the same. It is just a ‘cut and paste’ of Hindu Marriage Act and Hindu Succession Act,\u201d Owaisi said.He said tribals had been excluded from the UCC in Uttarakhand and Gujarat because of differences in their religious and social practices, and argued that Muslims faced a similar issue.<\/p>\n Share your thoughts in the comments<\/p>\n<\/div>\nOwaisi questions opposition\u2019s claims over elections<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Owaisi alleges UCC aims to impose Hindu laws<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n