Hyderabad: Charminar sitting MLA and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Mumtaz Ahmed Khan on Monday clarified that he would not switch allegiance to any other party after the AIMIM refused to give him a party ticket this election.
The six-time MLA Mumtaz was told that AIMIM might not nominate him for the upcoming Assembly elections, and the party fielded Mir Zulfikar Ali from Charminar. Soon after AIMIM announced that sitting Shaikpet corporator Mohammed Rashed Farazuddin will contest from Jubilee Hills, speculation were rife that Mumtaz Ahmed Khan may join Congress, sources said.
However, he later clarified his stand and said that his association will continue with the AIMIM. “I’m with my jamaat @aimim_national and with my part[y] president @asadowaisi,” he said in a post on X, in response to a previous report published on Siasat.com stating that he may join Congress.
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, who does not favour Khan this time around, is aligned with the party’s ‘vision of introducing a younger generation’. Mumtaz Ahmed Khan, now in his seventies, even suggested that AIMIM consider nominating one of his sons or nephews for the Yakutpura or Charminar seat. However, neither him nor his son was given a party ticket.
Recently, Charminar police booked the MLA’s son Imtiyaz Khan over allegations of threatening a party worker in a 2021. The father-son duo was recently booked for alleged violation of the poll code when they took out an ‘unauthorized’ rally.
