It is then ridiculous to label the AIMIM’s contribution towards inclusion and empowerment of minorities as division or radicalisation. Parties that have made tangible efforts, have stood up against the ongoing persecution of minorities and worked towards building communities, don’t need to fear us. The ‘vote katua’ tag is a carpet under which our secular parties can brush its failure and lack of effort. Not one seat of the Mahagathbandhan (MGB) was affected by AIMIM, and that’s factually correct. How did the BJP manage to win the rest, while the Congress secured just 19 of the 70 contested? At the same time, there were byelections in MP and Gujarat. The BJP won both, and we didn’t contest there. In Kishanganj, Bihar, we had a sitting MLA, so by this logic, the MGB shouldn’t have contested on that seat. Well, anyway, the Congress won that seat.