Sania Mirza Thinking About Running for Lok Sabha Election

Indian media reports that the Congress party is considering nominating famous tennis player Sania Mirza to contest against All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi from Hyderabad in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, in a surprising move.

Former Indian cricket captain and Congress leader Mohammed Azharuddin has proposed Mirza’s name for candidacy, as per the report. The Congress Central Election Committee (CEC) discussed candidates for several states, including Telangana, where Mirza’s candidacy may have been discussed.

Political analysts speculate that Congress aims to leverage Sania Mirza’s popularity and celebrity status to regain ground in Hyderabad’s electoral landscape.

The report notes that the Congress party last won in Hyderabad in 1980, with K S Narayan as the MP.

Mohammed Azharuddin, the former cricket captain and Congress leader, proposed Mirza’s candidacy. The two have close family ties, as Mohammed Asaddudin, the cricketer’s son, married Sania Mirza’s sister, Anam Mirza, in 2019.

Azharuddin contested the recently held Telangana legislative assembly elections, where he lost to Bharat Rashtra Samithi’s (BRS) Maganti Gopinath from Jubilee Hills constituency by over 16,000 votes.

Hyderabad has a rich cultural heritage and diverse demographics.

A stronghold of AIMIM, the recent resurgence of the grand old party witnessed in the 2023 assembly polls in the region has posed a significant challenge to AIMIM’s dominance, setting the stage for an intense electoral battle.

In 1984, Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi won the Hyderabad seat as an independent candidate and later, from 1989 to 1999, as an AIMIM candidate.

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