The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) clung to its bastion comprising seven Assembly constituencies, but took blow after blow of the Opposition’s mallet that considerably flattened the winning margins in Yakutpura and Nampally.
The tightly-contested Yakutpura saw AIMIM’s sitting legislator Jaffar Hussain locking horns with Majlis Bachao Tehreek’s Amjed Ullah Khan, who proved to be a tough contender. Mr. Hussain flailed over the finishing line with a wafer-thin margin of only 878 votes. In a stark contrast, the AIMIM’s winning margin in the 2018 Assembly elections stood at a massive 46,978.
In the same year, Mr. Khan’s elder brother, Majeed Ullah Khan, stood third. Mr. Amjed Ullah Khan emerging as the principal opposition in the constituency this election took several by surprise, and gave AIMIM workers several anxious moments.
