Assembly elections are set to be held in Uttar Pradesh early next year. Alliance talks for this election are under way between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress party. Asaduddin Owaisi had said that he was ready to form an alliance with the Samajwadi Party. Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) party has already contested elections held in recent months, including in Maharashtra, and has made an impact.
The party is now preparing to contest the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections on a full scale. The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) party is preparing to form an alliance with Chandrashekhar Azad’s Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) for the Assembly elections to be held in 2027. It is said that an agreement has been reached between the two parties after several rounds of talks.

Asaduddin Owaisi has arrived in Lucknow to make the official announcement on this.
This alliance brings together a party that seeks to represent Muslims and a party that is trying to build a political base among Dalits. They have been trying to create an alternative front beyond the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance and the opposition alliance led by the Samajwadi Party. Speaking about this alliance, Uttar Pradesh AIMIM party leader Shaukat Ali said, "Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj, which is popular among Dalits, and the Samajwadi alliance have rejected us.
That is why our party turned toward the Azad Samaj Party. We have always wanted a strong alliance to prevent the BJP from coming to power in Uttar Pradesh for a third time. Muslims have suffered greatly under BJP rule.
I do not know what dream Akhilesh Yadav is living in
. As far as I can see, this Samajwadi-Congress alliance is the same alliance that fought the 2017 Uttar Pradesh election. The same result will remain unchanged in the current election as well," Ali said.
Speaking about this alliance, Azad, the leader of the Azad Samaj Party, said that the alliance with the A.I.M.I.M. party in Uttar Pradesh will empower the youth, farmers, and the marginalized sections. Both parties aim to bring oppressed communities into the social mainstream. Issues such as vote theft are before us.
We are still experiencing the effects of demonetization, but the bigger concern is that the number of government jobs is declining. Educated youth from Dalit and backward communities are struggling for jobs even after graduating," Azad said.
In Uttar Pradesh, neither of the two parties mentioned above won even a single constituency in an विधानसभा election. In the 2022 election, the A.I.M.I.M. party contested 90 seats and received less than half a percent of the votes. The Azad Samaj Party fielded more than 100 candidates and received 0.13 percent of the vote. Azad, who contested from Gorakhpur Urban against Yogi Adityanath, lost his deposit by securing fewer than 8,000 votes. Two years later, Azad won the Nagina Lok Sabha constituency.
Muslims make up approximately 19 percent of the population of Uttar Pradesh, while Scheduled Castes account for about 21 percent. Together, the two communities constitute 40 percent of the population. This makes their vote one that can determine victory.!
