AURANGABAD : After a gap of two days, the All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen ( AIMIM ) MP Asaduddin Owaisi has relaunched his campaigning for the three party nominees in Aurangabad on Friday.

The Hyderabad-based party has nominated 24 candidates in the state, the highest so far by the party, including three in Aurangabad.

The candidates are Imtiyaz Jaleel from Aurangabad Central, Gangadhar Gade from Aurangabad West and Gaffar Qadri from the Aurangabad East.

Owaisi, along with party workers, visited all key areas of three assembly constituencies from the morning. This was Owaisi’s second day-long campaigning in the city, where he covered over 15km. In his earlier visit, he had covered parts of Garkheda, Pundlik Nagar, Shambhu Nagar, Osmanpura, Indira Nagar, Silk Mills colony, Kranti Chowk and other areas of the Aurangabad west constituency.

Owaisi resorted to door-to-door campaigning in Aurangabad west, where the party has fielded Dalit leader and former minister Gangadhar Gade.

Owaisi and Gade came down heavily on communal forces in the state and also accused the Congress and NCP of playing communal politics under the garb of secularism.

“Once our candidates win, we'll show true secularism in word and spirit. We'll ensure that nobody is deprived of his rights as a citizen of this country,” Owaisi said.

Gade said that MIM is secular in the true sense. If elected, he will fight for the rights of the minorities, the backward class and other deprived classes, he added.

Along with candidate Qadri, Owaisi visited voters’ homes in the Aurangabad East constituency. In the evening a programme was held in Harsul area, which falls under Aurangabad Central constituency.

