Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said that his All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen will field 100 candidates in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled to be held in March 2022.

“We will fight and win in Uttar Pradesh. Our target is to defeat the BJP,” Owaisi told the media in Lucknow on Tuesday, the first of his three-day tour of the state.

Iqbal Ansari, a Muslim leader of Ayodhya, said: “Owaisi is team B of the BJP. I call on the Muslims of the state to ask Owaisi to stay in Hyderabad and spare Uttar Pradesh.”