All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, led by Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi, would field candidates in the May 12 Assembly polls in Karnataka, party sources said.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, led by Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi, would field candidates in the May 12 Assembly polls in Karnataka, party sources said.
"We are contesting in the Karnataka polls but the number of seats is yet to be finalised," the sources said.
The party would go it alone in the May 12 elections and is not looking at electoral tie-up, they said.
AIMIM has seven members in the Telangana Legislative Assembly.
The EC today announced a single phase election for the 224-member Karnataka Legislative Assembly on May 12, with counting of votes to be taken up on May 15.
Welcoming the Election Commission's schedule for the Assembly polls, political parties in Karnataka today said they are "election ready", with all three players, Congress, BJP and JDS, claiming that they would come to power.
BJP President Amit Shah welcomed the announcement, saying that the party would come to power with a thumping majority under the leadership of state BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa.
Speaking to reporters at Davanagere on the second day of his tour to central regional of Karnataka, Shah said the party is all geared up to fight the election and will come to power and Yeddyurappa will become the next Chief Minister.
The ruling Congress, which is facing a tough challenge from BJP, welcomed the election dates, asserting that the party is poll ready.
@INCKarnataka welcomes the Election Commission's announcement. Karnataka Assembly Polls on 12th May and counting on 15th May 2018. We are election ready!" KPCC President G Parameshwara said in a tweet.
Commenting on the poll dates, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah expressed confidence about Congress coming back to power for a second term.
"Expectation was that it will be announced any time after March 23, today they have declared (the dates)," he told reporters in Chikkaballapura.
Janata Dal (Secular) state President H D Kumaraswamy invoking the gods, said that their blessings were on his party.
"I'm confident that this time the Janata Dal government, which is Janata government, will come to power," he said, reacting to the poll dates.
Kumaraswamy also ruled out any alliance with Congress or BJP for the Karnataka polls.
"People of the state have decided to throw away both (Congress and BJP) parties from the state and I'm working amidst the people," he said.
The JDS, which has already announced candidates for 126 constituencies, is in alliance with Bahujan Samaj Party for the Karnataka polls.
(With PTI inputs)
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