Lucknow: Senior leader of Samajwadi Party (SP) and Lok Sabha MP Dr. Shafiqur Rahman Barq these days is firing verbal arrows at his own party and is also targeting party chief Akhilesh Yadav. After which speculations are being made about Burke joining some other party. Meanwhile, Asaduddin Owaisi's party AIMIM MP Imtiyaz Jaleel has invited Barq to join his party and said he need not fear anyone. He said that there is a king in SP and how old you are, it doesn't matter to them, so Barq sahab should not wait for tomorrow. 

Jalil further said that Shafiqur Rahman Barq should join our party today itself, we will welcome him with open arms. We will accept them with all due respect. According to the condition of the country today, if we do not unite our Qayadats (leaders), then there will be more atrocities against us. We would like to flatter him in the Majlis. Their experience will be put to good use here, which will benefit them as well as we will, so they should come with us. 

Jaleel asked the leaders who brought together the entire opposition against the BJP that when it comes to mobilizing the entire opposition, why we (AIMIM) are not taken along. He said that Lalu and Mulayam's sons do politics on the votes of Muslims, so they feel that if AIMIM is taken along, then Muslim voters will leave them and go with AIMIM. That's why they don't keep us in alliance. We want the entire opposition to unite. AIMIM not only wants to defeat BJP, but wants to eliminate it from the whole country. 

AIMIM leader Imtiyaz Jaleel further said that the opposition leaders should explain why they are not including us in the alliance, alleging that the opposition parties only want the votes of Muslims. They do not like his leadership. We want Muslim leadership. Let us tell you that Imtiaz Jaleel had reached Moradabad to campaign for the party candidates in the municipal elections. During this, he said that this time our party is going to perform very well in the municipal elections in UP and we are sure that most of our candidates will win. 

What did Shafiqur Rahman Burke say about Akhilesh: -

According to reports, MP Shafiqur Rahman was addressing an election rally on Thursday night in Mian Sarai, the home constituency of SP MLA Iqbal Mehmood. This election meeting was organized in support of the candidate declared by him. He said that Akhilesh Yadav had promised his candidate to contest elections independently, but now SP has given ticket to MLA Iqbal's wife Rukhsana Iqbal. Shafiqur Rahman further said that Akhilesh Yadav did not do it right, but he too is not afraid of Akhilesh. If the party wants, it can also expel them, but it will not make any difference. He had said that he is also ready to show strength and confront Akhilesh Yadav. 

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