Lucknow: The Owaisi-Chandrashekhar alliance will contest all 403 Uttar Pradesh Assembly seats with Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) president Chandrashekhar Azad as its chief ministerial face, the two leaders said in Lucknow on Thursday.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi shared the stage with Azad. He said the Samajik Parivartan Morcha would be a strong alternative to stop the BJP.
“Abdul will now get equal status,” Owaisi said. He also said their people had so far only been voters.
Muslims make up 19% of Uttar Pradesh’s population and Dalits 21%.
Azad, an MP, objected to anyone calling the alliance a third front. Instead, he called it the first strong front of the exploited and deprived. His party had tried to join a bigger alliance, he said, but others saw it as weak. Now, he said, it would not tolerate insult. Still, he would ask the Congress and the SP to join the front to defeat the BJP.
On Akhilesh Yadav’s visit to Ayodhya, Owaisi recited a couplet by Ameer Minai. He then asked if Yadav had ever taken a bullet or faced gunfire on his vehicle. Azad, he said, still lives with the pain of a bullet wound. Owaisi also accused Yadav of practising the politics of entitlement.
Yadav had said those helping the BJP got security. Owaisi replied that he would speak just as freely even if he lost it tomorrow. “Akhilesh Yadav is a former chief minister and, Inshallah, will remain a former,” he said.
Owaisi-Chandrashekhar alliance plans Lucknow rally on November 26
Azad said the Owaisi-Chandrashekhar alliance would hold a “Bahujan Samaj Mahasammelan Maharally” on November 26, Constitution Day. The venue is Mata Ramabai Maidan in Lucknow. Calling Owaisi “Asad bhai”, he invited him to the rally. After the event, the front will release its manifesto.
He claimed the Morcha would bring a change of government in the 2027 Assembly election. He accused the BJP government of fake encounters and of bulldozing mosques. He also alleged that it had shut over 25,000 schools and stopped reservation in four medical colleges. The BJP’s real aim, he said, is to end the Constitution and reservation.
On farmers, Azad said sugar was selling above Rs 60, yet cane farmers were not getting Rs 600. He listed several alleged atrocities and custodial deaths, from Meerut to Hathras and Kasganj. But opposition leaders who claim to speak for the PDA stayed silent on them, he said. Azad also raised the Shabbirpur violence and the NSA case against him.
उत्तर प्रदेश में इंसाफ़, बराबरी और सियासी हिस्सेदारी की नई शुरुआत!
#Owaisi_AzadTieUp4UP https://t.co/EKwfbpddGg
— AIMIM (@aimim_national) November 12, 2026
Meanwhile, Owaisi targeted Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over the SIR. He noted that the final SIR came out on April 10. He then asked how Adityanath had arrived at a figure of 1.27 crore deleted names from the majority community. Perhaps the chief minister has a PhD in mathematics, he joked. He also demanded a country-wise list of how many turned out to be Bangladeshi, Pakistani or other non-Indian nationals.
