AIMIM refutes joining hands with SP ahead of 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections

UP AIMIM president Shaukat Ali denied reports of his party forging an alliance with Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP) ahead of the 2022 Assembly elections in the state. 

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Shaukat Ali on Sunday (July 25) vehemently denied reports of his party forging an alliance with Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP) ahead of the 2022 UP Assembly elections.  Shaukat Ali told ANI that neither he nor AIMIM supremo Asaduddin Owaisi has said that they will ally with SP if the latter chooses a Muslim face as the deputy chief minister if elected to power in Uttar Pradesh.  "We have never said that AIMIM will go for alliance with Samajwadi Party if Akhilesh Yadav makes a Muslim leader as deputy chief minister if the party comes into power in Uttar Pradesh. We clearly deny the reports stating that because neither I nor AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi made these statements,” AIMIM UP chief was quoted as saying by the news agency.