Lucknow: The Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM and Chandrashekhar Aazad’s Azad Samaj Party (Kanshiram) on Thursday announced the formation of the ‘Samajik Parivartan Morcha’ to jointly contest the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.
The announcement was made by Aazad in the presence of AIMIM president and Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi at a press conference here.
However, he added that the coalition was large-hearted and any other party, including the Samajwadi Party and the Congress, were welcome to contest the polls in support of their alliance if they wanted to stop the BJP from coming to power in UP again.
Rejecting the description of the alliance as a third front, Aazad claimed it could emerge as a strong political platform for the deprived, oppressed and marginalised sections of society.
People have been calling it a third front, but it is not a third front. It is the Samajik Parivartan Morcha. If you understand its depth, you will realise that it is the first front, he said.
Aazad said the alliance would seek to unite weaker and deprived sections and enable them to use their electoral strength to secure political power and address their concerns.
Invoking B R Ambedkar, he said political power was the master key to resolving people’s problems and argued that communities without their own political organisation could not effectively protect their interests, irrespective of their population.
He said Ambedkar had formed political organisations, including the Scheduled Castes Federation, the Indian Labour Party and the Republican Party of India, after realising that existing political parties would not adequately represent the interests of marginalised communities.
Aazad alleged that successive governments had failed to fulfil promises of bringing deprived communities into the mainstream, addressing poverty and preventing atrocities against them.
