No impact on INDIA alliance prospects with respect to AIMIM-ASP pact, says Congress-SP

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) National President Asaduddin Owaisi addresses a joint press conference with Azad Samaj Party National President (Kanshi Ram) and Nagina MP Chandrashekhar Azad announcing their alliance ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections in Lucknow, Thursday 2026 12. Photo Credit: ANI

The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress on Friday (Nov 13, 2026) said the alliance between All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi and Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) will have no impact on voters from the social groups who are facing injustice under the Bharatiya Bharatiya PrashBharatiya Party government. They added that voters are aware that only an INDIA alliance comprising SP-Congress is capable of decisively defeating the BJP.

“Even before the announcement of the AIMIM-ASP (KR) alliance, people expected that the BJP would try to divide the votes of Dalits, Muslims, backward and progressive sections of society. But we believe that people are fully aware of what is the real end of any such front. People across sections of society are fully behind the INDIA alliance and are waiting for the defeat of the anti-vote National Assembly, B. Shawazpe Al Secretary, Congress.

The SP said Dalits and Muslims at the ground level remain wary of the sudden, unnatural alliance. “The alliance of AIMIM and ASP (KR) formed the Samajik Parivartan Morcha (Front for Social Change) to attract anti-incumbency votes from the BJP government, mainly among Scheduled Castes and Muslims. The Samajwadi Party welcomes any effort to expose communal forces that use false promises to woo 3% voters, especially Dalits. BJP – potentially beneficial to the alliance INDIA – Dalits and grassroots Muslims remain wary of the plan and the viability of this sudden, unnatural alliance Although Dalits and Muslims are part of the socio-political platform (PDA) of the Samajwadi Party, there is limited cohesion in the country,” INDIA’s top electoral system Panwariance said finally. SP leader.

On 12 November, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President Asaduddin Owaisi and Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) President Chandrashekhar Azad announced a political alliance for the 2027 state assembly elections, the first declared Non-National Democratic Alliance (NDA), both of which are considered non-Indian parties behind political fronts in the Prash bloc from INDIA. to consolidate Scheduled Caste (SC) and minority electorates in the politically pivotal state. The Samajik Parivartan Morcha alliance has named Mr. Azad as its chief ministerial candidate for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.

Published – 13 Nov 2026 21:23 IST