Unknown assailants fired at AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi in UP

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Unknown assailants fired at Lok Sabha MP and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Chief Asaduddin Owaisi in Uttar Pradesh today (February 3). The Parliamentarian was on his way to Delhi from Kithaur in Meerut. Owaisi said that 4 rounds of bullets were fired at his car by 3-4 people who then escaped from the spot, leaving their weapons behind. He also tweeted a photograph of his vehicle.

“My car was fired at the Chhajarsi toll gate some time ago. 4 rounds were fired. There were 3-4 people, all of them ran away and left the weapons there. My car got punctured, but I got out in another car and left. We are all safe. Alhamdulillah,” Owaisi tweeted after the incident. Owaisi, Lok Sabha MP from Hyderabad, was on his way to the national capital after attending a poll event in Kithaur. No arrest has been made in the incident till now. Owaisi’s AIMIM is in the electoral battlefield in UP this time after the leader launched a new front jointly last month. Owaisi joined hands with little-known political outfit Jan Adhikaar Party of former Uttar Pradesh minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and an all-India body of government employees of the backward, Dalits and minority community, founded by Kanshi Ram in 1970s. Former UP minister Kushwaha was made the convenor of the new front. Owaisi’s front will be contesting on all 403 constituencies in Uttar Pradesh with AIMIM fielding candidates in 100 of the seats. The AIMIM chief also promised two chief ministers in UP, one from the backward classes and the other from the Dalit community, if the front comes to power in the state.

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