Owaisi, Azad likely to announce alliance on November 12 for Uttar Pradesh elections

Lucknow AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi and Azad Samaj Party (Kanshiram) chief Chandrashekhar Azad are expected to hold a joint press conference in Lucknow on Thursday (November 12, 2026) to announce a pact between their two parties for the upcoming 2027 Uttar Pradesh elections, party leaders indicated. Marginalised sections face crisis of leadership: Aazad storyline 1 The two-party alliance, in the making, could well be the much-talked-about non-BJP, non-Congress third front as both AIMIM and Azad Samaj Party look at the nearly 41% Dalit and minority vote bank in the most populous state where the BJP is eyeing a record hat-trick, a prospect that the opposition Samajwadi Party is desperate to break. New Analysis: Is the Dhirendra Shastri controversy a springboard to make Lord Krishna an electoral symbol ahead of U.P. polls?