Abdul won't lay carpets: Owaisi's UP poll cry gets a Congress counter

India Today · Sushim Mukul · 2026-11-02 01:00 UTC

For years Abdul laid carpets raised slogans and voted for the SP and Congress says AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi Now he says Abdul will become an MLA or MP instead of backing the Nehru-Gandhis and Yadavs Owaisi039s attack ahead of the 2027 UP election has a Congress counter

For years, Abdul laid carpets, raised slogans and voted for the SP and Congress, says AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi. Now, he says Abdul will become an MLA or MP, instead of backing the Nehru-Gandhis and Yadavs. Owaisi's attack ahead of the 2027 UP election has a Congress counter.

A journalist in UP's Rampur asked the local Samajwadi Party MP, Mohibbullah Nadvi, where "Abdul" stood as parties prepared for the 2027 Assembly election. "Abdul-Abdul kya hota hai?" Nadvi shot back. He accused the journalist of making a mockery of an entire community and warned never to use the name again.

That was in the first week of October. Abdul is not a politician. But he has become an unlikely character of a political battle in poll-bound UP, where Muslims constitute 19.26% of the population, going by the 2011 Census.

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