Azamgarh, Oct. 11 -- All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday sounded the bugle for his party's crusade in Azamgarh ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.

Azamgarh, long considered a high-stakes fortress for mainstream "secular" regional parties like the Samajwadi Party (SP), bore witness to a fiery political intervention. With the state stepping into the crucible of political campaigning, Owaisi launched a multi-pronged assault targeting both historical Congress icons and regional opposition figures like Akhilesh Yadav.

Challenging the traditional playbook of treat-and-vote patronage, Owaisi urged the electorate, particularly marginalised and minority voters, to reject subserv...