18 March,2024 07:20 PM IST | Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar | mid-day online correspondent
Imtiaz Jaleel. Pic- official Twitter account
The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Monday announced the candidature of MP Imtiaz Jaleel from central Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (earlier Aurangabad) for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024. Jaleel had won the seat in 2019 elections, the PTI reported.
According to the PTI, Imtiaz Jaleel, who is also the Maharashtra unit president of the Hyderabad-based party, was keen to contest from one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Mumbai, but AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi renominated the journalist-turned-politician from his current seat which will go to polls on May 13 in phase four.
Asaduddin Owaisi took to social media platform X to announce Imtiaz Jaleel's candidature and said he will contest from Aurangabad (now called Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar).
The Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP also announced the candidature of AIMIM leader Akhtarul Iman from the Kishanganj parliamentary seat in Bihar.
Iman is AIMIM's Bihar unit president.
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Earlier, Jaleel had expressed interest in contesting from one of the Lok Sabha seats in Mumbai and sent a proposal to the party leadership in this regard. The Lok Sabha member did not reply to phone calls seeking reaction over renomination from his sitting seat.
Imtiaz Jaleel won in 2019 after defeating undivided Shiv Sena's candidate Chandrakant Khaire by a margin of 4,492 votes from the seat in the state's Marathwada region. Independent candidate Harshawardhan Jadhav had secured 2.83 lakh votes and contributed in Khaire's defeat.
The notification for the Lok Sabha constituency, one of the 11 seats in Maharashtra going to polls on May 13, will be issued on April 18.
The constituency has 30,32,546 registered voters, including 41,465 newly-enrolled electors, and they will be casting their ballot at 2,040 booths, an official said, the news agency reported on Monday.
Earlier, the Imtiaz Jaleel had said that his party has identified six Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra to field candidates, reported the PTI.
Imtiaz Jaleel, the MP from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and also the party's state unit chief, however, did not give details of these six seats, as per the PTI.
Imtiaz Jaleel had also said that it would be clear in some days from where he would fight the upcoming polls.
(with PTI inputs)
