Ahmedabad: Asaduddin Owaisi to meet Atique Ahmed in jail

AHMEDABAD: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) national president Asaduddin Owaisi will be in Ahmedabad on Monday.
He is expected to meet former MP and gangster Atique Ahmed, who is lodged in Ahmedabad’s Sabarmati jail.
Owaisi will also meet the office-bearers of the AIMIM to work out a preliminary strategy to contest next year’s assembly election.
AIMIM city president Shamshad Pathan said that Atique Ahmed has joined the party and has vowed to strengthen it.
“His family joined the AIMIM in UP earlier this month and Ahmed’s wife, Shaista Parveen, read out a letter from him, pledging support to AIMIM,” Pathan said.
Owaisi will meet the office-bearers of the party at Tagore Hall. He is expected to arrive in the city at 7am on Monday and will leave late at night the same day.
According to party office-bearers, Owaisi will leave his hotel for the Sabarmati Central Jail at 9:30am and is scheduled to leave the jail at 11:30am to return to his hotel. He is likely to spend over an hour meeting Ahmed at the jail.
Ahmed was shifted from the Prayagraj Central Jail to the Sabarmati Central Jail in June 2019.
Ahmed has cases of murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping and other serious offences registered against him. He has been elected MLA and MP from Uttar Pradesh in the past.