Owaisi’s AIMIM Fields Riot-Accused Tahir Hussain From Mustafabad For Upcoming Delhi Polls – News18
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Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM has fielded riot-accused and former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain as their candidate from Mustafabad for the upcoming Delhi Vidhan Sabha elections.
AIMIM fields Owaisi from Mustafabad for Delhi elections (Photograph: X/@asadowaisi)
Asaduddin Owaisi’s get together All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has fielded riot-accused Tahir Hussain from Mustafabad, for the upcoming Delhi elections.
The event was confirmed in considered one of Owaisi’s posts on X.
“MCD Councillor Tahir Hussain joined AIMIM & can be our candidate from Mustafabad Meeting Constituency within the upcoming Delhi Vidhan Sabha elections,” Owaisi wrote.
“His relations & supporters met with me right this moment & joined the get together,” he added.
MCD Councillor Tahir Hussain joined @aimim_national & can be our candidate from Mustafabad Meeting Constituency within the upcoming Delhi Vidhan Sabha elections. His relations & supporters met with me right this moment & joined the get together pic.twitter.com/oFnQBlJgOF— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) December 10, 2024
Hussain is a former Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) councillor and was named an accused in a case associated to the February 2020 northeast violence, which left not less than 53 folks useless and round 700 injured.
On December 5, the Delhi Excessive Court docket quashed a First Data Report (FIR) towards Tahir Hussain in a case associated to the February 2020 violence.
Justice Subramonium Prasad noticed the existence of a previous FIR registered for a similar incident that passed off on February 24, 2020, and mentioned the chargesheet filed by the Delhi police within the current FIR could be handled as a supplementary chargesheet within the first case.
The Delhi Meeting elections, due by February 2024, are a essential take a look at for the AAP because it seeks to safe a 3rd time period following its sweeping victory within the 2020 elections when it gained 62 out of the 70 seats.
