AIMIM holds exclusive meetings with women voters for T'gana

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has held meetings exclusively for women in different constituencies in Hyderabad for the December seven Legislative Assembly elections in Telangana.

"Today, I attended the last of the Ladies Group Meetings for this election season. I've learnt a lot from these meetings and I hope to participate in them more frequently.

The affection and courage that I saw in these meetings will stay with me forever," AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi said on twitter Tuesday.

The meetings had been held at places, including Malakpet, Bahadurpura, Tolichowki, Charminar, Yakutpura and Nampally, all in the city.

Owaisi listened to the grievances of women at the meetings, MIM sources said.

"For the elections, AIMIM is organising women-only events in each constituency. The events allow me and the party candidate to listen to the problems of women voters and work harder for them," Owaisi had said earlier.

The Hyderabad MP, who attended a women's group meeting along with Yakutpura candidate Ahmed Pasha Quadri, had said on November 4 that he would take up work on housing, healthcare and social security more aggressively.

Housing, including high rents for rented accommodation, and healthcare are some of the main issues that surfaced in these meetings, sources said.

AIMIM has so far declared candidates for eight Assembly segments in the city.

It had seven members in the recently-dissolved Assembly.

In August, Congress president Rahul Gandhi had attended an interactive meeting here with the members of women Self-Help Groups (SHGs).

In September, BJP leader and Union Minister Smriti Irani had also addressed a women's meeting organised by the party near Medak.