{"id":302492,"date":"2018-09-11T06:54:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T06:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302492"},"modified":"2018-09-11T06:54:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T06:54:27","slug":"telangana-assembly-election-aimim-announces-first-list-of-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/telangana-assembly-election-aimim-announces-first-list-of-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Telangana assembly election: AIMIM announces first list of candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/telangana-assembly-election-aimim-announces-first-list-of-candidates\/owaisi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302493\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302493 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/owaisi-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/owaisi-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/owaisi-696x623.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/owaisi-469x420.jpg 469w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/owaisi.jpg 727w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a>All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Tuesday announced its first list of seven candidates for the coming legislative assembly election in Telangana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the list, Owaisi\u2019s younger brother Akbaruddin Owaisi would contest from Chandrayangutta assembly segment in Hyderabad, Mumtaz Khan will contest from Charminar, while Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri will represent AIMIM from the Yakutpura constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The other candidates announced are: Jaffer Hussain Meraj (Nampally), Mohd Moazam Khan (Bahadurpura), Ahmed Bin Abdullah Balala (Malakpet), and Kausar Moinuddin (Karwan).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Legislative assembly elections in Telangana were originally scheduled to be held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha elections next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, Telangana Governor ESL Narasimhan on 6 September had dissolved the assembly following a recommendation made by the TRS government, necessitating elections ahead of schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Governor had asked K Chandrashekhar Rao to continue as caretaker Chief Minister until the new government was formed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Tuesday announced its first list of seven candidates for the coming legislative assembly election in Telangana. According to the list, Owaisi\u2019s younger brother Akbaruddin Owaisi would contest from Chandrayangutta assembly segment in Hyderabad, Mumtaz Khan will contest from Charminar, while Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri will represent AIMIM from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2072,2014,2921],"tags":[4895,4896,4894,2426,4200,2226,4897],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302495,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302492\/revisions\/302495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}