HYDERABAD: With the State Election Commission announcing the dates for the upcoming local body election, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Party candidates for the GHMC elections filed their nomination on Friday,which also marks the last day to file nominations.
Some of the candidates who filed their nominations include:
Dr. Khasim- Vijayanagar
Sarfaraz Engineer - Ahmednagar
Arif Rizwan - Red Hills
Mohammed Moosa -Asifnagar
Mohd Saifuddin Shafi- Old Malakapet
Zaffar Khan-Mallepally
Mohd Omer Quereshi-Old Bownepally
Mohd Majid Hussain - Mehdipatnam
Doodhbowli - Mohd Saleem
Ramansthapura- Mohd Khader
Jahanuma-Muqtader Baba
Nawab Sahab Kunta-Abdul Hannan
Kishanbagh-Hussaini Pasha
Falaknuma-Moti Lal Nayak
Nampally- Ahmed Sarfaraaz Siddique
Shaikpet - Mohammed Rashed Farazuddin.
Nawabsaheb Kunta - Shireen Khatoon
Kishanbagh - Hussaini Pasha
There are 45 seats in the old city of Hyderabad where the AIMIM won 44 seats in 2016 & is expected to win again as of now.
The AIMIM is an ally of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS Party) and will indulge in a ‘friendly fight’ with each other in the GHMC elections. This was confirmed by the TRS working president and state minister for IT, municipal administration and urban development K T Rama Rao, who on Thursday clarified that his party would not have any alliance with AIMIM in the GHMC elections and declared the TRS candidates list for all the 150 divisions.
In the 2016 elections, AIMIM won 44 seats and TRS won 99, thus making them the majority seat holder. Out of 44 corporators of AIMIM, four were Hindus, three belonging to other backward castes and one from the scheduled caste.
As per the GHMC Act, the general public can directly elect 150 corporators who along with 64 ex-officio members (MPs, MLAs ,MLCs etc) can then elect the Mayor and Deputy Mayor for the City.