HYDERABAD: The Congress has decided to focus on strengthening the party in the Old City and has set a target of digitally enrolling at least 50,000 voters as members from the seven Assembly constituencies falling under the Hyderabad parliamentary constituency represented by All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi.
Earlier, the Congress had never gone aggressively in its membership drive in the Old City as it used to maintain friendly ties with the AIMIM. But in the last 10 years, the gap between the two parties has only been growing after the AIMIM severed its ties with the Congress following its MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi being sent to jail in a hate speech case during N Kiran Kumar Reddy-led Congress government in the combined Andhra Pradesh State in January 2013. There are 50 municipal divisions in the seven Assembly constituencies represented by AIMIM MLAs where the Congress will aggressively pursue digital membership enrolment drive.
