Fallen out with the Congress, Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (MIM) is likely to find a new ally in Telugu Desam Party (TDP), and sources said if all goes well the two parties would join hands in the next general elections coinciding with the assembly polls due for May next year as they felt the alliance would be helpful for parties in containing the common enemy Congress.
MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi on Thursday held talks with senior TDP leaders and sought the party’s support to the MIM candidate in the elections to the lone MLC seat in Hyderabad region. The TDP leaders are learnt to have responded positively and told Owaisi that they would get back to him after discussing with party president N Chandrababu Naidu.
For quite some time, there have been indications that the MIM might join hands with the TDP and its president Asaduddin Owaisi in his interviews to the media did not rule out the possibility. It was more or less confirmed when the MIM followed the TDP line by not participating in the no-confidence motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government in the assembly.
—Agencies