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Owaisi Named Azad His UP Chief Minister Pick — and Said the New Front Will Stop the BJP a Third Time
The Story — AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and Azad Samaj Party-Kanshiram president Chandrashekhar Azad announced the Samajik Parivartan Morcha at a joint press conference in Lucknow on Thursday, November 12, ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. Owaisi named Azad, the Nagina MP, as the alliance’s chief ministerial candidate and said the front would stop the BJP returning to power for a third time.
Azad said there were no seat-sharing differences and that the partners would jointly contest all 403 Assembly constituencies. Owaisi said the alliance would focus on marginalised communities, unemployment and farmers, and announced a grand public meeting for November 26.
The Hindu’s presentation is spare and announcement-led — Owaisi endorsing Azad — and it tags the story as Dalit politics, Bahujan politics, social justice and Dalit rights: a representation story, with no INDIA-bloc backstory and no vote-split analysis.
ANI leads with the 2027 stakes and the stop-the-BJP claim, then lets both leaders speak at length — Owaisi on social change, unemployment and farmers, Azad on unkept promises, Hathras, his imprisonment and reservation — closing on the arithmetic: Muslims about 19 per cent of the state, Scheduled Castes about 21 per cent.
Mirror Now leads with the announcement, then the backstory: AIMIM shut out of the INDIA bloc after its October 2 deadline to SP and Congress went unanswered. It centres strategy — Azad rejecting the ‘third front’ label but staying open to SP and Congress, and Owaisi’s swipe at Akhilesh Yadav.
The front tries to put Dalit and Muslim voters behind one banner outside both the BJP and the SP-Congress bloc, but it must show press-conference unity can become candidates and organisation across 403 seats. What to watch is the November 26 meeting and whether SP or Congress answer its invitation.
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