Majlis Bachao Tehreek
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Majlis Bachao Tehreek (Save Majlis Movement), is a political party in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
Majlis Bachao Tehreek (Save Majlis Movement) ia a political party in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. MBT was founded by Mohammed Amanullah Khan as a result of a split from the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimen. Khan formed MBT in 1993 after coming into conflict with the AIMIM president Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi. Issues of nepotism, patronage, and corruption strongly concerned Amanullah Khan. The Babri Masjid issue was the breaking point; concerns of Owais's weak policy towards the incident pushed Khan away. The stronghold of MBT is the Muslim areas in Hyderabad. but after the recent elections MBT has losen its ground in old city of Hyderabad Khan was elected five times to the Andhra Pradesh state legislative assembly. 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 1999 he ran as a MBT candidate, but was defeated by AIMIM candidate Akbaruddin Owaisi.
Mohammed Amanullah Khan died on November 10 2002.
In Lok Sabha election 2004 MBT launched another son of Khan, Majidullah Khan, in the Hyderabad constituency (as a countercandidate against the AIMIM candidate Asaduddin Owaisi). Khan received 47 560 votes (4,78% of the votes in that constituency). Most of the votes came from the Chandrayangutta area, where Khan got 28,746 votes (20,6% of the votes in that area).
MBT has two out of a hundred seats in the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. Amjadullah Khan is one of the corporators.
In the Andhra Pradesh state legislative assembly elections 2004. MBT had launched seven candidates, out of whom five contested against AIMIM candidates. No MBT candidate was elected.
Mumtaz Ahmed Khan, member of the legislative assembly on behalf of AIMIM, was a member of MBT until 1999.
