AIMIM to contest all 24 vacant seats in Bihar

PATNA: Having tested success in the 2020 assembly elections, the AIMIM has decided to contest elections to the 24 vacant legislative council seats from the panchayati raj and urban local bodies quota in the state. The AIMIM has also begun to envision a bigger role for itself in the future, if the bids for new government formation are made.
“As of now, in consultation with the party’s central leadership, we have decided to field our candidates in all the 24 legislative council seats,” AIMIM state chief Akhtarul Iman said on Monday.
While drawing a blank in the 2015 assembly elections when the AIMIM contested six assembly seats in the Seemanchal districts (Purnia, Kishanganj, Katihar and Araria), it won the by-election held on the Kishanganj assembly seat in 2019, and followed it up by winning five of 24 assembly seats in 2020 assembly election.