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It is only a trickle and may never become a flood. But two parties are growing organically, without engineering splits or defections. One is the Shiv Sena, which has established a hold on campuses in Maharashtra, ousting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP); and the other is the All India Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), which used to be known as a Hyderabad-based party — till recently.
Take a look at the two recent Assembly elections that AIMIM contested seriously. In Maharashtra (2019), in some pockets, its vote share went up dramatically. In Dhule City and Malegaon Central, for instance, the AIMIM
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