Bihar By-Elections 2024: By- elections have been announced on four seats in Bihar. Voting will be held on November 13. Counting of votes will be done on November 23. While NDA and India Alliance are preparing to field candidates for this election, AIMIM along with Jan Suraj Party is also preparing a strategy. ABP News spoke to AIMIM MLA Akhtarul Iman on Wednesday (October 16) about what preparations are being made. Read what he has said.

In the 2020 assembly elections, AIMIM had won five seats. However, except Akhtarul Iman, the rest of the MLAs left the party. In such a situation, now when the by-election is taking place, the party is once again ready to get into active mode.

Candidates have been selected for Belagnj and Imamganj

Akhtarul Iman said that we will definitely participate in the by-elections. So far the top leadership has taken the decision to field candidates in Belagnj and Imamganj. The candidates have been selected. The announcement will be made soon. The party has not yet given the green signal on whether candidates will be fielded from Tarari and Ramgarh or not.

Muslim voters have the highest population in both Belagnj and Imamganj seats. Belagnj has 15.8% Muslim voters and Imamganj has 14.9% Muslim voters. So far no major party has fielded a Muslim candidate on these two seats. However, Jan Suraj founder Prashant Kishore has claimed that Muslim candidates will be fielded on 40 seats in the 2025 elections. It is believed that in this by-election too, Jan Suraj Party can give a chance to Muslim candidates from Belagnj and Imamganj. 

Owaisi's party is also preparing for 2025

Akhtarul Iman told ABP News that our party is preparing for all 243 seats. In the upcoming 2025 assembly elections, the party will field its candidates on most of the seats. Last time we won five seats. Although RJD broke away four of our MLAs and included them in their party, our support base has never decreased. He said that the public trusts Asaduddin Owaisi. The public has understood all the big parties. Now they are not going to fall into their trap. These people have cheated the Muslims. They will get the answer to this first in this by-election.