All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen
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| All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen | |
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| Leader | Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi |
| Founded | 1927 |
| Main Office | Darussalam Board, Hyderabad |
| Alliance | United Progressive Alliance |
| Ideology | Islamist |
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| See also | Politics of India |
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (All India Council of the Union of Muslims) is a political party in India that was formed to represent the Muslim population of Andhra Pradesh. The stronghold of AIMIM is the old city of Hyderabad and Muslim dominated areas of Andhra Pradesh though it has its units in some parts of Mahrashtra and Karnatka also. In the Lok Sabha elections of 2004 the party won the seat of Hyderabad. The seat has been held by the AIMIM since 1984. In the year 2004 Lok Sabha elections AIMIM received 132807 votes (74,6%) in the Charminar area (i.e. the Muslim old city, one of seven assembly constituencies in the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency). 1984-2004 the MP of AIMIM was party president Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, but ahead of the 2004 elections Owaisi stepped down in favour of his son Barrister Asaduddin Owaisi.
Amanullah Khan (Ghazi-e-millat) who passed away on November 10, 2002 was a very strong party member. He represented the Chandrayangutta between 1978 and 1994. Four times he was elected as an AIMIM candidate and in 1994 as a MBT candidate.
In the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections of 2004 AIMIM had launched seven candidates, out of whom five got elected.
AIMIM has 37 seats (out of 100) in the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad and it also holds Hundreds of Muncipal Ward Seats in Various Districts of Andhra Pradesh and it also holds the Karimnagar Deputy Mayor seat.
The party has roots back to the days of the princely State of Hyderabad. It was founded by Bahadur Yar Jung in 1927 as a pro-Nizam party. The Majlis advocated the set up of a Muslim dominion rather than integration with India. The Razakars (volunteers), a Muslim paramilitary organization, was linked to the Majlis. In total up to 150 000 Razakar soldiers were mobilized to fight against the communists and for the independence of the Hyderabad State against Indian integration. After the integration of the Hyderabad state with India, the Majlis was banned in 1948. The Majlis president and Razakar leader Qasim Rizwi was jailed 1948-1957, and then deported to Pakistan.
In 1957 the Majlis was reorganized under the leadership of Abdul Wahid Owaisi (Fakhr-E-Millat) who was a Famous Lawyer and an Islamic scholar from Jamia Nizamia. Abdul Wahid Owaisi is credited with having "re-written" the Majlis constitution according to the provisions of the Indian Constitution. In the 1970s the Majlis made a political comeback. The AIMIM of today try to distance themselves from the organization of the Nizam days. The constitution of the Majlis today recognize Hyderabad as a part of India, and the name has been changed ("All India" was added) so that there should be no confusion on the position of the Majlis on the national issue.
A break-away group formed by Amanullah Khan that initially caused much problems for AIMIM during the 1990s is the Majlis Bachao Tehreek.
September 13, 2001 the AIMIM leader in the Andhra Pradesh assembly tried to stall a motion condemning the September 11 attacks. In the legislative assembly elections in Maharashtra 1999, AIMIM put up one candidate in Nanded who got 1 039 votes (0,61%).
