All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM, All India Council off the Union off Muslims) is the main thing and the oldest Indian political party representing the Moslem minority in the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh. It was founded in 1927 in the princely State of Hyderabad, for the educational and social rise in the Moslems , specifying in same time as the prince and the throne (Nizam) are the symbols of the political and cultural rights of the Muslim community (...) and that this statute must last eternally . This party fought, sometimes violently, the Indian nationalist movements as well as the Communists who called in question the feudal system.

After independence and the partition, the Indian army put an end to the dealing violent one of the AIMIM and expelled his leader, Kasim Rizvi, towards the Pakistan. Before leaving, he entrusted the presidency to a lawyer, Abdul Waheb Owaisi, which rewrote the statutes of the party in conformity with the constitution of India and with realities of a Moslem minority in independent India , like a journalist wrote.

During the first 15 years of this new existence, the AIMIM played only one marginal part in the political life with Hyderabad, never not managing to make elect more than one member of the regional Parliament, in spite of a continuous growth of its voices.

In 1969 the party recovered its seat, Dar-custom-Salaam, a real and land whole considerable in the old city, as of financial equalizations which enabled him to start to create and to develop various education institutions. In 1976, Salahuddin Owaisi took the succession of his/her father.

The AIMIM counted in 2003 a federal deputy representing Hyderabad, 4 deputies at the regional Parliament of the Andhra Pradesh, 36 city council men with Hyderabad and more than 75 city council men in various localities of Andhra Pradesh. To the federal legislative elections, the party passed from: 58000 votes in 1958 with: 112000 in 1980, passing then to: 220000 in 1984 and with more: 400000 in 1989.

The parliamentary leader of the party, Asaduddin Owaisi, lawyer and wire of Salahuddin Owaisi, compares the AIMIM, also known under name Majlis , with the North-American movement Black Power.

Source

A.A., " Holding them captive? " , The Hindu, April 27th, 2003

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