Owaisi and Azad Launch Uttar Pradesh Alliance for 2027

Asaduddin Owaisi and Chandrashekhar Azad announced the Samajik Parivartan Morcha in Lucknow on November 12, naming Azad its chief-ministerial candidate for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. The alliance brings together Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and Azad’s Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram).

At a joint press conference, the leaders presented the new formation as a platform for social change and a political alternative. Owaisi said it would address education, youth unemployment, farmers’ problems and issues affecting marginalised communities. He said the alliance aimed to prevent the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from winning a third consecutive term in the state; that is the alliance’s stated objective, not an established forecast of the election result.

Azad rejected the description of the alliance as a third front, saying it was intended to represent deprived and marginalised groups. He criticised successive governments for failing to improve their circumstances. The alliance has also invited other parties, including the Samajwadi Party and Congress, to join it in opposing the BJP, according to remarks reported at the event.