Buoyed by its good showing in the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections in which it won five seats, the AIMIM is now planning to throw its hat in the electoral ring in the West Bengal Assembly elections slated in the first half of 2021, which could spell trouble for non-BJP parties in the eastern state.Telangana-based All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen or AIMIM, led by Asaduddin Owaisi, put up an impressive show in Bihar by bagging more than 1.24 per cent votes while contesting 24 seats.
The AIMIM not only won five seats in Bihar, but also played the political spoilsport in an equal number of Assembly constituencies, which could have tilted the balance in a tight situation like in the new Bihar Assembly.This prompted Congress West Bengal unit President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury to say that "the Grand Alliance in Bihar lost because of AIMIM".The AIMIM's entry in West Bengal will make the Trinamool Congress, the Congress and the Left jittery as a resurgent Owaisi, after wining seats in Seemanchal area of Bihar.